Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M88617

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ROBERT A. SPOLZINO, J.P.

MARK C. DILLON

JOHN M. LEVENTHAL

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, JJ.

2000-11279 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE The People, etc., respondent, v Nathan Lawrence, appellant. (Ind. No. 99-2297)

Motion by the appellant pro se for leave to prosecute an appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County, rendered December 6, 2008, as a poor person and for the assignment of counsel.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and no papers having been filed in opposition or in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the appellant is 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 he 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 July 27, 2009; and it is further,

ORDERED that the appellant's motion 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 his last known place of residence or, if he is imprisoned, at the institution in which he is confined, and upon the attorney who last appeared for him, and upon the District Attorney, by ordinary mail pursuant to CPL 470.60(2).

SPOLZINO, J.P., DILLON, LEVENTHAL and CHAMBERS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court