People v Joseph Meldish

Motion No: M-6604

Slip Opinion No: 2017 NYSlipOp 66960(U)

Decided on March 9, 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.

March 9, 2017

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent,

v

Joseph Meldish,

Defendant-Appellant.

An order of this Court having been entered on May 10,

2012 (M-1412), granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a

poor person, the appeal taken from the judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered on or about October 18, 2011, And, assigned counsel, Rosemary Herbert, Esq., having

moved for an order to be relieved as counsel for defendant

and to substitute other counsel to prosecute defendant's appeal, Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent

of striking the designation of assigned counsel Rosemary

Herbert, Esq., as counsel to prosecute defendant's appeal,

and substituting, pursuant to Section 722 of the County Law, Robert S. Dean, Esq., Center For Appellate Litigation, 120 Wall Street, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10005, Telephone No. (212) 577-2523, as such counsel. The poor person relief previously granted is continued, and appellant's time to perfect the appeal is enlarged until 120 days from the date of this order or the filing of the record, whichever is later. Entered: March 9, 2017

_____________________ CLERK

Present: Hon. David Friedman, Justice Presiding, Richard T. Andrias Karla Moskowitz Barbara R. Kapnick Marcy L. Kahn, Justices

M-6604

Ind. No. 4344/07