Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M198277

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RUTH C. BALKIN, J.P.

SHERI S. ROMAN

JEFFREY A. COHEN

COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ.

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

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

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. By order to show cause of this Court dated June 29, 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 the papers filed 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.

BALKIN, J.P., ROMAN, COHEN and DUFFY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court