Opinion
Motion No. 2023-02871 Ind. No. 2510/15Case No. 2017-948
09-28-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Tho Nguyen, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Ellen Gesmer, Justice Presiding, Saliann Scarpulla Manuel J. Mendez Martin Shulman John R. Higgitt, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on February 14, 2017 (M-6483) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken to this Court from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about June 09, 2016, and assigning Seymour W. James, Jr., Esq. as predecessor to Twyla Carter, Esq., The Legal Aid Society, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and assigned counsel having moved to withdraw the appeal as abandoned, without prejudice to reinstatement at such time as appellant 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.