People v Castro-Velasquez, Juan
Motion No: 2012-10580
Slip Opinion No: 2015 NY Slip Op 61476(U)
Decided on January 16, 2015
Appellate Division, Second Department, Motion Decision
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.


Supreme Court of the State of New York

Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M185426

E/sl

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

L. PRISCILLA HALL

LEONARD B. AUSTIN

JEFFREY A. COHEN, JJ.

2012-10580

The People, etc., respondent,

v Juan Castro-Velasquez, appellant.

(Ind. No. 2199-12)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by Robert C. Mitchell, counsel assigned to prosecute an appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered November 19, 2012, 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 October 27, 2014, 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 has abandoned the appeal, and the motion by assigned counsel to be relieved was held in abeyance in the interim.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and no papers having been filed in opposition or in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion to dismiss the appeal is granted and the appeal is dismissed; and it is further,

ORDERED that the motion by assigned counsel to be relieved is granted.

RIVERA, J.P., HALL, AUSTIN and COHEN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court