Opinion
Motion No: M-3673
10-01-2019
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Dwight Reid, 4839/16 Defendant-Appellant.
An order of this Court having been entered on October 16, 2018 (M-4098), granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about May 31, 2017, and assigning Robert S. Dean, Esq., Center for Appellate Litigation, as counsel to prosecute the appeal, And defendant-appellant having moved for an order relieving assigned counsel Robert S. Dean, Esq., and substituting Julia P. Kuan, Esq., Romano & Kuan PLLC, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and for continuation of the poor person relief previously granted by the aforesaid order of this Court entered on October 16, 2018 (M-4098), 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 striking the designation of Robert S. Dean, Esq., Center for Appellate Litigation, as assigned counsel to prosecute defendant-appellant's appeal. That branch of the motion seeking to substitute Julia P. Kuan, Esq., Romano & Kuan PLLC, as such counsel is denied, as unnecessary. The poor person relief previously granted is continued, and defendant-appellant's time in which to perfect the appeal is enlarged until 120 days from the date of this order or the filing of the complete record, whichever is later.
ENTERED: October 1, 2019
__________ CLERK
Present - Hon. Angela M. Mazzarelli, Justice Presiding,Barbara R. Kapnick Troy K. Webber Ellen Gesmer Cynthia S. Kern,Justices
M-3673
Ind. Nos. 2707/14