Opinion
Motion No. 2023-02053 Ind. No. 5131/16Case No. 2019-1792
06-22-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Alihadj Sako, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Dianne T. Renwick, Cynthia S. Kern Lizbeth González Manuel J. Mendez Bahaati E. Pitt-Burke, Presiding Justice, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on March 19, 2020 (M-641) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about August 16, 2018, and assigning Janel E. Sabel, Esq., as predecessor to Twyla Carter, Esq., The Legal Aid Society, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and assigned counsel having moved to be relieved as 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.