People v 5135/13 Alex Ortiz

Motion No: M-1917

Slip Opinion No: 2017 NYSlipOp 62844(U)

Decided on January 12, 2017

Appellate Division, First Department, Motion Decision

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.

January 12, 2017

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent,

v

5135/13

Alex Ortiz,

Defendant-Appellant.

An appeal having been taken from a judgment of the

Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about April 2, 2015, And, an order of this Court having been entered on

September 15, 2015 (M-3760), granting defendant poor person relief and assigning Richard M. Greenberg, Esq., Office of the Appellate Defender, as now succeeded by Rosemary Herbert, Esq., And, defendant having moved for an order relieving assigned counsel and substituting new counsel to prosecute the appeal, Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and the correspondence submitted by successor assigned counsel, Rosemary Herbert, Esq., and due deliberation having been had thereon, it is Ordered that the motion to relieve counsel is deemed withdrawn. ENTERED: January 12, 2017

_____________________ CLERK

Present: Hon. Angela M. Mazzarelli, Justice Presiding, Karla Moskowitz Sallie Manzanet-Daniels Ellen Gesmer,Justices

M-1917

Ind. Nos. 5320/13