People v Luis Fajardo

Motion No: M-1861

Slip Opinion No: 2018 NYSlipOp 75407(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

Luis Fajardo,

Defendant-Appellant.

An order of this Court having been entered on April 3, 2018 (M-534) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal from the judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about November 15, 2017, under New York County Ind. No. 1533/16, and assigning Cristina Swarns, Esq., Office of the Appellate Defender, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and a motion having been made to relieve such counsel, 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 striking the designation of assigned counsel Cristina Swarns, Esq., Office of the Appellate Defender, as counsel to prosecute defendant's appeal, and substituting, pursuant to Section 722 of the County Law, Robert S. Dean, Esq., Center for Appellate Litigation, 120 Wall Street, 28th Floor, New York, New York

10005, Telephone No. 212-577-2523, as such counsel. The poor

person relief previously granted is continued, and appellant's time in which to perfect the appeal is enlarged until 120 days from the date of this order or the filing of the record, whichever is later.ENTERED: June 19, 2018

_____________________ CLERK

Present - Hon. Rosalyn H. Richter, Justice Presiding, Richard T. Andrias Troy K. Webber Ellen Gesmer Peter H. Moulton, Justices

M-1861

Ind. No. 1533/16