Opinion
Submitted May 12, 2000.
July 31, 2000.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gary, J.), rendered June 4, 1998, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.
Arza Rayches Feldman, Roslyn, N.Y., for appellant.
Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Diane R. Eisner of counsel), for respondent.
Before: GLORIA GOLDSTEIN, J.P., LEO F. McGINITY, DANIEL F. LUCIANO, NANCY E. SMITH, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed.
The defendant has been deported and is no longer subject to the jurisdiction of the court. Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed (see, People v. Del Rio, 13 N.Y.2d 899; People v. Forde, 182 A.D.2d 830).