Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M240928

E/ct

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

JEFFREY A. COHEN

JOSEPH J. MALTESE

VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ.

2017-02714 The People, etc., respondent, v Suzanne Whitman, appellant. (Ind. No. 43/16)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

Renewed motion by the appellant pro se on an appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Dutchess County, rendered January 24, 2017, for leave to prosecute the appeal as a poor person, and for the assignment of 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 either (1) to show cause before this Court why the appeal should not be dismissed on the ground that the notice of appeal from the judgment was untimely (see CPL 460.30) by filing an affirmation or an affidavit on that issue in the office of the Clerk of this Court on or before January 18, 2018, or (2), if so advised, to make a motion pursuant to CPL 460.30 to deem the notice of appeal timely filed, on or before January 18, 2018; and it is further,

ORDERED that pursuant to County Law § 722 the following named attorney is assigned as counsel to respond to the order to show cause or to make a motion pursuant to CPL 460.30:

Thomas N. N. Angell, Esq.

Public Defender

22 Market Street

Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

and it is further,

ORDERED that the appellant's motion is held in abeyance pending determination of this Court's motion to dismiss the appeal; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel is directed to serve a copy of this order to show cause upon the clerk of the court from which the appeal is taken; 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 the appellant's last known place of residence or, if the appellant is imprisoned, at the institution in which the appellant is confined, upon the attorney who last appeared for the appellant, upon the attorney named above, and upon the District Attorney, by ordinary mail pursuant to CPL 470.60(2).

RIVERA, J.P., COHEN, MALTESE and BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court

Appellant's Address:

17-G-0127

Albion Correctional Facility

3595 State School Road

Albion, NY 14411-9399