Opinion
Motion No. 2022-04848 Ind. No. 579N/15Case No. 2017-1354
01-31-2023
People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Willie Quattlebaum, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
PRESENT: Hon. Barbara R. Kapnick, Justice Presiding, Lizbeth González Tanya R. Kennedy Manuel J. Mendez John R. Higgitt, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on February 14, 2017 (M-6489) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal from the judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about April 11, 2016, and assigning Seymour W. James, Jr., Esq., as predecessor to Twyla Carter, The Legal Aid Society, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and a motion having been made to relieve such counsel, or, in the alternative, to dismiss the appeal without prejudice, Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.