Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M192333

E/ct

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

L. PRISCILLA HALL

LEONARD B. AUSTIN

HECTOR D. LASALLE, JJ.

2014-03796 The People, etc., respondent, v Rahiem Clark, appellant. (Ind. No. 13-00251)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

Motion by Clare J. Degnan, in effect, to be relieved as counsel for the appellant on an appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County, rendered February 25, 2014, on the ground that the appellant has failed to respond to correspondence sent to him by assigned counsel.

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 appellant is 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 the appellant has abandoned the appeal, by filing an affirmation or an affidavit on that issue in the office of the Clerk of this Court on or before June 18, 2015; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel's motion 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., HALL, AUSTIN and LASALLE, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court