Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

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REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

DAVID S. RITTER

DANIEL D. ANGIOLILLO

WILLIAM E. McCARTHY, JJ.

2007-01932 The People, etc., respondent, v Ricardo Jackson, appellant. (Ind. No. 06-00384)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

Motion by Richard L. Herzfeld, counsel assigned to prosecute an appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County, rendered January 2, 2007, to be relieved on the ground that the appellant has, in effect, abandoned the appeal, 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 appeal on the ground that she has abandoned the appeal, by filing an affirmation or an affidavit on that issue in the office of the Clerk of this court on or before May 30, 2008; and it is further,

ORDERED that the motion by assigned counsel to be relieved 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 her last known place of residence or, if she is imprisoned, at the institution in which she is confined, and upon the attorney who last appeared for her, and upon the District Attorney, by ordinary mail pursuant to CPL 470.60(2).

RIVERA, J.P., RITTER, ANGIOLILLO and McCARTHY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court