Opinion
Ind. No. 1452/17 No. 2019-2212 Motion 2021-04131
01-18-2022
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Julio Mendez Santana, Defendant-Appellant. Ind. No. 1452/17 No. 2019-2212
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
PRESENT: Hon. Rolando T. Acosta, Jeffrey K. Oing Lizbeth González Bahaati E. Pitt John R. Higgitt, Presiding Justice, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on May 14, 2019 (M-1340) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from the judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered on or about January 29, 2019, and assigning Christina Swarns, Esq., predecessor counsel to Caprice R. Jenerson, Esq., Office of the Appellate Defender, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and a motion having been made to relieve such counsel, and to substitute retained counsel, 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 Caprice R. Jenerson, Esq., Office of the Appellate Defender, as assigned counsel to prosecute defendant's appeal. The branch of the motion seeking to substitute retained counsel Jesse Hoberman-Kelly, Esq., as defendant's counsel on the appeal is denied as unnecessary.