People v Gilberto Diaz .

Motion No: M-1284

Slip Opinion No: 2017 NYSlipOp 75441(U)

Decided on June 1, 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.

June 1, 2017

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent,

v

Gilberto Diaz,

Defendant-Appellant.

An appeal having been taken from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about June 14, 2016, And defendant-appellant, pro se, having moved for permission to proceed pro se on the appeal,Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion; and a letter having been issued by the Court to appellant on February 27, 2017, advising him of the consequences of proceeding pro se, and defendant having responded hereto on

March 7, 2017; and due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of granting defendant permission to proceed, pro se, on the aforesaid appeal, and deeming the pro se brief, annexed to the motion, a timely filed pro se brief for the September 2017 Term of this Court. ENTERED: June 1, 2017

_____________________ CLERK

PRESENT: Hon. John W. Sweeny, Jr., Justice Presiding, Rosalyn H. Richter Richard T. Andrias Troy K. Webber Ellen Gesmer, Justices

M-1284

Ind. No. 6205/09