Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M57872

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FRED T. SANTUCCI, J.P.

ANITA R. FLORIO

PETER B. SKELOS

THOMAS A. DICKERSON, JJ.

2005-09559 The People, etc., respondent, v Latisha Shorts, appellant. (Ind. No. 215-04)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant pro se to relieve counsel assigned to prosecute an appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered June 30, 2005, and for assignment of new counsel.

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

ORDERED that the motion is denied; and it is further,

ORDERED that on the court's own motion, the appellant is granted leave to file a supplemental pro se brief; and it is further,

ORDERED that the District Attorney shall file the transcript of the proceedings, if any, and the Clerk of this court shall deliver those minutes to the person in charge of the institution wherein the appellant is incarcerated for examination by the appellant; the transcript shall be returned to this court when the appellant files the supplemental brief or informs this court that no supplemental brief will be filed; and it is further,

ORDERED that the appellant shall file nine copies of the supplemental brief and serve one copy on the District Attorney.

Upon delivering the minutes to the institution, the Clerk of this court shall advise the appellant of the date by which the minutes are to be returned and the brief filed.

SANTUCCI, J.P., FLORIO, SKELOS and DICKERSON, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court