Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M195562

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MARK C. DILLON, J.P.

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS

LEONARD B. AUSTIN

SANDRA L. SGROI, JJ.

2014-04394 The People, etc., respondent, v Marcos Torres, appellant. (Ind. No. 13-00432)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by Geoffrey E. Chanin, counsel assigned to prosecute an appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County, rendered December 12, 2013, to be relieved on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeal by failing to respond to telephone and written communications made to him by assigned counsel. By order to show cause of this Court dated May 15, 2015, 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 the appellant had abandoned the appeal, and assigned counsel's motion was held in abeyance in the interim.

Now, upon the order to show cause and no papers having been filed in response thereto, and upon the papers filed in support of assigned counsel's 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 assigned counsel's motion is granted.

DILLON, J.P., CHAMBERS, AUSTIN and SGROI, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court