Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M194752

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JOHN M. LEVENTHAL, J.P.

THOMAS A. DICKERSON

SHERI S. ROMAN

SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX, JJ.

2010-07354 The People, etc., respondent, v Vishal Singh, appellant. (Ind. No. 796/10)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

Motion by Lynn W. L. Fahey, in effect, to be relieved as counsel for the appellant on an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered July 12, 2010, on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeal, by failing to respond to correspondence and other communications sent to him by assigned counsel, and assigned counsel is unable to contact him.

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 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 July 29, 2015; and it is further,

ORDERED that the motion by assigned counsel, in effect, to be relieved as counsel 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).

LEVENTHAL, J.P., DICKERSON, ROMAN and HINDS-RADIX, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court