Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M145905

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REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

RUTH C. BALKIN

JOHN M. LEVENTHAL

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, JJ.

2007-10473 The People, etc., respondent, v Lawrence Woods, appellant. (Ind. No. 2040/06)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

Renewed motion by the appellant pro se on an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered October 15, 2007, for leave to prosecute the appeal as a poor person, and for the assignment of counsel.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in opposition thereto, it is

ORDERED that on the Court's own motion, the appellant is directed to show cause before this Court why an order should or should not be made and entered dismissing the appeal as abandoned (see 22 NYCRR 670.8[f]), by filing an affidavit on that issue with the Clerk of this Court on or before December 20, 2012; 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 her 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 District Attorney, by ordinary mail pursuant to CPL 470.60(2).

RIVERA, J.P., BALKIN, LEVENTHAL and CHAMBERS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court