People v Stalin Alcantra

Motion No: M-428

Slip Opinion No: 2018 NYSlipOp 67888(U)

Decided on March 27, 2018

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.

March 27, 2018

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent,

v

Stalin Alcantra,

Defendant-Appellant.

An order of this Court having been entered on July 28,

2016, (M-2446), relieving Seymour W. Jones, Jr., Esq., The Legal Aid Society, as counsel to prosecute defendant's appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about October 17, 2014, and assigning Richard M. Greenberg, Esq., predecessor chief counsel to Christina Swarns, Esq., at the Office of The Appellate Defender, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and a motion having been made to relieve such counsel, or in the alternative, to dismiss the appeal, and for related relief, Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn, and is otherwise denied.ENTERED: March 27, 2018

_____________________ CLERK

Present - Hon. David Friedman, Justice Presiding, Peter Tom Troy K. Webber Cynthia S. Kern,Justices

M-428

Ind. No. 2599N/14