Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M56503

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WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.

REINALDO E. RIVERA

ROBERT A. SPOLZINO

WILLIAM E. McCARTHY, JJ.

2001-08850, 2001-08852 The People, etc., respondent, v Christopher Owens, appellant. (Ind. Nos. 01-00283, 01-00354)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

Motion by counsel assigned to prosecute appeals from two judgments of the County Court, Orange County, both rendered September 28, 2001, in effect, to be relieved on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeals by failing to respond to correspondence sent to him by assigned counsel.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the appellant show cause before this court why an order should or should not be entered dismissing the appeals on the ground that he has abandoned the appeals, by filing an affirmation or an affidavit on that issue in the office of the Clerk of this court on or before July 27, 2007; and it is further,

ORDERED that the motion by assigned counsel is held in abeyance in the interim; and it is further,

ORDERED that the Clerk of this court or his designee is directed to serve a copy of this order to show cause upon the appellant at his last known place of residence or, if he is imprisoned, at the institution in which he is confined, and upon the attorney who last appeared for him, and upon the District Attorney, by ordinary mail pursuant to CPL 470.60(2).

MASTRO, J.P., RIVERA, SPOLZINO and McCARTHY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court