Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M179507

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REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

LEONARD B. AUSTIN

SANDRA L. SGROI

COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ.

2013-08063, 2013-09220 The People, etc., respondent, v Lee Robinson, appellant. (Ind. No. 1510-13)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

Motion by Robert C. Mitchell, counsel assigned to prosecute appeals from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered June 26, 2013, and a resentence of the same court, imposed July 9, 2013, respectively, 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.

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

ORDERED that on the Court's own motion, the parties are 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 the appellant has abandoned the appeals, by filing an affirmation or an affidavit on that issue in the office of the Clerk of this Court on or before October 9, 2014; and it is further,

ORDERED that the motion by assigned counsel to be relieved 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 attorney who last appeared for him, and upon the District Attorney, by ordinary mail pursuant to CPL 470.60(2).

RIVERA, J.P., AUSTIN, SGROI and DUFFY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court