People v Hiawatha Cuffee .

Motion No: M-635

Slip Opinion No: 2018 NYSlipOp 69871(U)

Decided on April 17, 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.

April 17, 2018

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent,

v

Hiawatha Cuffee,

Defendant-Appellant.

Defendant-appellant's appointed counsel, the Office of the Appellate Defender, having moved for an order relieving it as appointed counsel or, in the alternative, dismissing defendant's appeal taken from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about January 19, 2016, without prejudice to reinstatement at such time appellant becomes amenable to the jurisdiction of this Court, 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deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted only to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn, and is otherwise denied. ENTERED: April 17, 2018

_____________________ CLERK

Present - Hon. David Friedman, Justice Presiding, Rosalyn H. Richter Angela M. Mazzarelli Barbara R. Kapnick Ellen Gesmer, Justices

M-635

Ind. No. 1860/15