Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M208922

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RUTH C. BALKIN, J.P.

SHERI S. ROMAN

JEFFREY A. COHEN

SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX, JJ.

2013-03368 The People, etc., respondent, v Wornyonwon Jeffrey, appellant. (Ind. No. 183/12)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by Seymour W. James, Jr., counsel assigned to prosecute an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County, rendered March 13, 2013, in effect, to be relieved on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeal, by failing to respond to correspondence sent to him by assigned counsel. By order to show cause of this Court dated January 12, 2016, 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.

BALKIN, J.P., ROMAN, COHEN and HINDS-RADIX, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court