Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M155698

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PETER B. SKELOS, J.P.

THOMAS A. DICKERSON

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS

SHERI S. ROMAN, JJ.

2011-01496 The People, etc., respondent, v Leonard Joseph, appellant. (Ind. No. 1626-10)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by Carol E. Castillo to be relieved as counsel for the appellant on an appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered December 14, 2010, 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 March 21, 2013, 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.

Now, upon the order to show cause and no papers having been filed in response thereto, and upon the papers filed in support of the motion by assigned counsel 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.

SKELOS, J.P., DICKERSON, CHAMBERS and ROMAN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court