Opinion
Motion No. 2022-05112 SCI Nos. 469/18 468/18Case No. 2018-04017
02-23-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. James Wardlow, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Dianne T. Renwick, Jeffrey K. Oing Manuel J. Mendez Martin Shulman John R. Higgitt, Justice Presiding, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on January 03, 2019 (M-5789) 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 May 03, 2018, and assigning Justine M. Luongo, Esq., 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.