Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M211081

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CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, J.P.

THOMAS A. DICKERSON

SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX

FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, JJ.

2011-03187, 2011-09167 The People, etc., respondent, v George O. Guldi, appellant. (Ind. Nos. 2066-09, 1709-09)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant pro se to restore to active status an appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered August 31, 2011, which was deemed abandoned pursuant to 22 NYCRR 670.8(f), in effect, for leave to proceed pro se with respect to that appeal, to consolidate that appeal with an appeal from a judgment of the same court rendered March 21, 2011, to deem the brief filed in connection with the appeal from the judgment rendered March 21, 2011, to also be the brief on the appeal from the judgment rendered August 31, 2011, to preclude the respondent from participating in oral argument on the appeals, and to enlarge the time to serve and file a reply brief.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in opposition thereto, it is

ORDERED that the branches of the motion which are to restore the appeal from the judgment rendered August 31, 2011, to active status and, in effect, for leave to proceed pro se with respect to that appeal, to consolidate the appeals, and to deem the brief filed in connection with the appeal from the judgment rendered March 21, 2011, to also be the brief on the appeal from the judgment rendered August 31, 2011, are granted; and it is further,

ORDERED that the branch of the motion which is to enlarge the time to serve and file a reply brief is denied as premature; and it is further,

 ORDERED that the branch of the motion which is to preclude the respondent from participating in oral argument on the appeals is denied.

CHAMBERS, J.P., DICKERSON, HINDS-RADIX and CONNOLLY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court