Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M156657

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MARK C. DILLON, J.P.

DANIEL D. ANGIOLILLO

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS

SYLVIA HINDS-RADIX, JJ.

2011-02398, 2011-02399 The People, etc., respondent, v Danny Pichardo, appellant. (Ind. Nos. 9/10, 2418/10)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by Lynn W. L. Fahey, counsel assigned to prosecute appeals from two judgments of the Supreme Court, Queens County, both rendered February 4, 2011, in effect, to be relieved on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeals, by failing to respond to correspondence sent to him by assigned counsel. By order to show cause dated April 9, 2013, the appellant was directed to show cause before this Court why an order should or should not be made and entered dismissing the appeals on the ground that he had abandoned the appeals, and the motion by assigned counsel, in effect, 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 appeals is granted and the appeals are dismissed (see 22 NYCRR 670.8[f]); and it is further,

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

DILLON, J.P., ANGIOLILLO, CHAMBERS and HINDS-RADIX, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court