Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M142905

J/sl

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, A.P.J.

RANDALL T. ENG

PLUMMER E. LOTT

JEFFREY A. COHEN, JJ.

2011-02531 The People, etc., respondent, v Jose Medrano-Rodriguez, appellant. (Ind. No. 2993-10)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by Carol E. Castillo, counsel assigned to represent the appellant on an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, rendered February 18, 2011, to be relieved, on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeal, by failing to respond to correspondence sent to him by assigned counsel. By order to show cause dated July 24, 2012, the appellant was 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 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 response thereto, and upon the papers filed in support of assigned counsel's motion and the papers filed in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion to dismiss the appeal is granted and the appeal is dismissed (see 22 NYCRR 670.8[f]); and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel's motion to be relieved is granted.

MASTRO, A.P.J., ENG, LOTT and COHEN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court