People v Taft Hamer

Motion No: M-1738

Slip Opinion No: 2018 NYSlipOp 75401(U)

Decided on June 19, 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.

June 19, 2018

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent,

v

Taft Hamer,

Defendant-Appellant.

An appeal having been taken from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about January 28, 2014, And an order of this Court having been entered on July 2, 2015 (M-2129), relieving assigned counsel Seymour W. James, Jr., Esq., Legal Aid Society, and substituting Richard M. Greenberg, Esq., Office of the Appellate Defender, succeeded by Christina Swarns, Esq., to prosecute defendant's appeal, And Christina M. Swarns, Esq., having moved for an order relieving the Office of the Appellate Defender as counsel for defendant or, in the alternative, dismissing the appeal as abandoned, without prejudice to reinstatement, 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn, and otherwise denied. ENTERED: June 19, 2018

_____________________ CLERK

Present: Hon. John W. Sweeny, Jr., Justice Presiding, Dianne T. Renwick Angela M. Mazzarelli Ellen Gesmer Anil C. Singh, Justices

M-1738

Ind. No. 2717/13