Opinion
Motion No: M-4850
11-27-2018
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Abdoulaye Sow, Defendant-Appellant.
An order of this Court having been entered on March 8, 2016 (M-562), inter alia, granting defendant's motion for leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about February 18, 2015, under Indictment No. 1395/14, and assigning The Legal Aid Society to prosecute said appeal, And an order of this Court having been entered on April 13, 2017 (M-960), striking the designation of said assigned counsel and substituting, pursuant to Section 722 of the County Law, Robert S. Dean, Esq., Center for Appellate Litigation, as appellate counsel, and continuing the previously granted poor person relief, And defendant-appellant's assigned counsel, the Center for Appellate Litigation, having moved to dismiss the aforesaid appeal as abandoned, without prejudice to reinstatement at such time as defendant-appellant again becomes amenable to the jurisdiction of this Court, 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn under New York County Ind. No. 1395/14.
ENTERED: November 27, 2018
_____________________ CLERK
Present - Hon. Dianne T. Renwick, Justice Presiding, Peter Tom Angela M. Mazzarelli Troy K. Webber Cynthia S. Kern, Justices
M-4850
Ind. No. 1395/14