Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M236225

E/afa

L. PRISCILLA HALL, J.P.

LEONARD B. AUSTIN

SANDRA L. SGROI

LINDA CHRISTOPHER, JJ.

2016-03302 People of State of New York, respondent, v Ivan Villalobo, appellant. (Ind. No. 515/14)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

Motion by Alan Katz, counsel assigned to represent the appellant by the Supreme Court, Kings County, inter alia, to be relieved of the assignment on an appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, dated February 24, 2016, on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeal by failing to respond to communications by assigned counsel.

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

ORDERED that on the Court's own motion, the appellant is directed to show cause before this Court why an order should or should not be made and entered dismissing the appeal on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeal, by filing an affirmation or an affidavit on that issue in the office of the Clerk of this Court on or before September 18, 2017; and it is further,

ORDERED that the motion by assigned counsel, inter alia, to be relieved is held in abeyance in the interim; and it is further,

ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court or her designee is directed to serve a copy of this order to show cause upon the appellant at his last known place of residence or, if he is imprisoned, at the institution in which he is confined, and upon the attorney who last appeared for him, and upon the District Attorney, by ordinary mail pursuant to CPL 470.60(2).

HALL, J.P., AUSTIN, SGROI and CHRISTOPHER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court