Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M187226

V/

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

RUTH C. BALKIN

COLLEEN D. DUFFY

HECTOR D. LASALLE, JJ.

2014-08198 The People, etc., respondent, v Jonathan W. Andujar, appellant. (Ind. No. 1175/13)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by The Legal Aid Society, to relieve Appellate Advocates as assigned counsel on an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered July 24, 2014, and to be substituted as new counsel.

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

ORDERED that the motion is granted, and the former assigned counsel is directed to turn over all papers in the action to new counsel herein assigned; and it is further,

ORDERED that pursuant to County Law § 722 the following named attorney is assigned as counsel to prosecute the appeal:

Seymour W. James, Jr., Esq.

The Legal Aid Society

199 Water Street - 5th Floor

New York, New York 10038

and it is further,

ORDERED that upon service of a copy of this decision and order on motion upon it, the Department of Probation is hereby authorized and directed to provide assigned counsel with a copy of the presentence report prepared in connection with the defendant's sentencing, including the recommendation sheet and any prior reports on the defendant which are incorporated or referred to in the report; and it is further,

ORDERED that the appellant's time to perfect the appeal is enlarged; assigned counsel shall prosecute the appeal expeditiously in accordance with this Court's rules (see 22 NYCRR 670.1, et seq.) and written directions; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel is directed to serve a copy of this decision and order on motion upon the clerk of the court from which the appeal is taken.

RIVERA, J.P., BALKIN, DUFFY and LASALLE, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court

Appellant's Address:

09-A-3294

Sing Sing Corr. Fac.

354 Hunter Street

Ossining, New York 10562