People v Colon, Wilmer
Motion No: 2007-06838
Slip Opinion No: 2007 NYSlipOp 87331(U)
Decided on December 24, 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

M61912

F/

A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

STEPHEN G. CRANE

STEVEN W. FISHER

WILLIAM E. McCARTHY, JJ.

2007-06838

The People, etc., respondent,

v Wilmer Colon, appellant.

(Ind. No. 1514/05)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION
Motion for Poor Person Relief
and to Assign Counsel - Appeal
from Judgment

Motion by the appellant pro se for leave to prosecute an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered June 29, 2007, as a poor person, and for the assignment of counsel.

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

ORDERED that on the court's own motion, it is

ORDERED that upon the death of the appellant on August 14, 2007, the appeal is dismissed, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Queens County, for entry of an order vacating the judgment and dismissing the indictment pursuant to People v Mintz (see 20 NY2d 770); and it is further,

ORDERED that the motion is denied as academic.

PRUDENTI, P.J., CRANE, FISHER and McCARTHY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court