Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M73176

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DAVID S. RITTER, J.P.

DANIEL D. ANGIOLILLO

JOHN M. LEVENTHAL

ARIEL E. BELEN, JJ.

2007-07350 The People, etc., respondent, v Steven Mann, Jr., appellant. (Ind. No. 06-616)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by Warren S. Hecht, counsel assigned to prosecute an appeal from an amended judgment of the County Court, Orange County, rendered July 19, 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. By order to show cause dated May 14, 2008, the appellant was directed to show cause before this court why an order should or should not be entered dismissing the appeal on the ground that he had abandoned the appeal, and the motion by assigned counsel to be relieved was held in abeyance in the interim.

Upon the order to show cause and no papers having been filed in opposition or in relation thereto, and upon the papers filed in support of the motion by assigned counsel to be relieved and the papers filed in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion to dismiss the appeal is granted and the appeal is dismissed; and it is further,

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

RITTER, J.P., ANGIOLILLO, LEVENTHAL and BELEN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court