People v Nelson, Isiah
Motion No: 2017-02607
Slip Opinion No: 2018 NY Slip Op 66339(U)
Decided on March 8, 2018
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

M247159

E/afa

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS

SANDRA L. SGROI

JEFFREY A. COHEN, JJ.

2017-02607

The People, etc., respondent,

v Isiah Nelson, appellant.

(S.C.I. No. 2952/16)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by counsel assigned to prosecute an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered January 26, 2017, 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 January 3, 2018, 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 the motion by assigned counsel to be relieved was held in abeyance in the interim.

Now, upon the order to show cause and no papers having been filed in response thereto, it is

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

ORDERED that the motion by assigned counsel, in effect, to be relieved is denied.

MASTRO, J.P., CHAMBERS, SGROI and COHEN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court