APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. KA 09-00380
Inmate # 06-B-2482, ONEIDA CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
INDICTMENT NO. 2005-1271

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENT, V THOMAS C. RICKS, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

An order having been entered on March 9, 2009, granting appellant's motion to perfect an appeal taken herein as a poor person and assigning David C. Schopp, Esq. as counsel to perfect the appeal,

Now, upon reading and filing the statement of Barbara J. Davies, Esq. dated March 24, 2009,

It is hereby ORDERED that Michael J. Stachowski, Esq., 2025 Clinton Street, Buffalo, New York 14206, is substituted as counsel to conduct the above-entitled appeal taken from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Erie County, rendered July 17, 2006, in place of David C. Schopp, Esq.; and said appeal may be prosecuted upon one record as defined by 22 NYCRR 1000.3 (c) (1) and 10 copies of appellant's brief reproduced pursuant to CPLR 5529; and

It is further ORDERED that the Clerk of Erie County is directed to provide Michael J. Stachowski, Esq. with copies of all papers and transcripts of stenographic, digitally recorded, or audiotaped minutes, if any, of the proceedings upon which the appeal is based.

Entered: April 13, 2009

PATRICIA L. MORGAN, Deputy Clerk