People v Morocho, Jorge L.
Motion No: 2006-03561
Slip Opinion No: 2007 NYSlipOp 80311(U)
Decided on October 10, 2007
Appellate Division, Second Department, Motion Decision
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.


Supreme Court of the State of New York

Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M60875

S/sl

DAVID S. RITTER, J.P.

FRED T. SANTUCCI

PETER B. SKELOS

MARK C. DILLON, JJ.

2006-03561

The People, etc., respondent,

v Jorge L. Morocho, appellant.

(Ind. No. 05-01133)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by assigned counsel for the appellant, in effect, to be relieved of the assignment to prosecute an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County, rendered March 24, 2006, on the ground that the appellant has been deported and is no longer available to obey the mandate of the court. By order to show cause dated February 8, 2007, the appellant was directed to show cause before this Court why an order should or should not be made and entered dismissing the appeal on the ground that the appellant has been deported and is no longer available to obey the mandate of the court (see People v Hutchings, 40 NY2d 836; People v Smith, 115 AD2d 625; People v Davis, 87 AD2d 578), and the motion by assigned counsel to be relieved was held in abeyance in the interim.

Upon the Court's own motion, and no papers having been filed in response thereto, it is

ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed; and it is further,

ORDERED that motion by assigned counsel to be relieved is granted.

RITTER, J.P., SANTUCCI, SKELOS and DILLON, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court