Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M226144

V/

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, J.P.

SHERI S. ROMAN

HECTOR D. LASALLE

BETSY BARROS, JJ.

2016-06569 The People, etc., respondent, v Joseph Casablanca, appellant. (Ind. No. 15-00058)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by assigned counsel to be relieved of the assignment to prosecute an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Rockland County, rendered April 26, 2016, and for the assignment of new counsel. The appellant's motion for leave to prosecute the appeal as a poor person and for assignment of counsel was granted on November 1, 2016, and the following named attorney was assigned as counsel to prosecute the appeal:

James Licata

Office of the Public Defender

11 New Hempstead Road

New City, New York 10956-3664

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and no papers having been filed in opposition or in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion is granted, and the former assigned counsel is directed to turn over all papers in the action to new counsel herein assigned; and it is further,

ORDERED that pursuant to County Law § 722 the following named attorney is assigned as counsel to prosecute the appeal:

Kathleen V. Wells, Esq.

222 North Main Street

New City, NY 10956

and it is further,

ORDERED that upon service of a copy of this decision and order on motion upon it, the Department of Probation is hereby authorized and directed to provide assigned counsel with a copy of the presentence report prepared in connection with the defendant's sentencing, including the recommendation sheet and any prior reports on the defendant which are incorporated or referred to in the report, and to provide additional copies to this Court upon demand; and it is further,

ORDERED that the appellant's time to perfect the appeal is enlarged; assigned counsel shall prosecute the appeal expeditiously in accordance with this Court's rules (see 22 NYCRR 670.1, et seq.) and written directions; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel is directed to serve a copy of this decision and order on motion upon the clerk of the court from which the appeal is taken.

CHAMBERS, J.P., ROMAN, LASALLE and BARROS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court

Appellant's Address:

16-A-1807

Mid-State Corr. Fac.

P.O. Box 2500

Marcy, NY 13403