People v Changzhan Zhou
Motion No: 2016-00997
Slip Opinion No: 2017 NY Slip Op 89234(U)
Decided on October 16, 2017
Appellate Division, Second 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.


Supreme Court of the State of New York

Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M239413

E/afa

JOHN M. LEVENTHAL, J.P.

BETSY BARROS

VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON

LINDA CHRISTOPHER, JJ.

2016-00997

The People, etc., respondent,

v Changzhan Zhou, appellant.

(Ind. No. 1053/15)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by counsel assigned to prosecute an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered June 5, 2015, in effect, to be relieved on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeal by failing to respond to communications by assigned counsel. By order to show cause dated July 28, 2017, the appellant was 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 had abandoned the appeal, and assigned counsel's motion was held in abeyance in the interim.

Now, upon the order to show cause and no papers having been filed in response thereto, and upon the papers filed in support of assigned counsel's motion and the papers filed in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion to dismiss the appeal is granted and the appeal is dismissed; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel's motion is granted.

LEVENTHAL, J.P., BARROS, BRATHWAITE NELSON and CHRISTOPHER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court