People v Nicholas Laray

Motion No: M-1874

Slip Opinion No: 2018 NYSlipOp 75544(U)

Decided on June 21, 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 21, 2018

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent,

v

Nicholas Laray,

Defendant-Appellant.

An order of this Court having been entered on July 14,

2016 (M-2823) 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 October 7, 2015, and assigning Richard M. Greenberg, Esq., predecessor to Christina Swarns, Esq., Office of the Appellate Defender, as counsel to prosecute the appeal, And a motion having been made by the Office of the Appellate Defender to be relieved as counsel, or, in the alternative to dismiss 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deeming the appeal withdrawn, and otherwise denied.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 21, 2018

_____________________ CLERK

Present: Hon. John W. Sweeny, Jr., Justice Presiding, Troy K. Webber Ellen Gesmer Anil C. Singh Peter H. Moulton, Justices

M-1874

Ind. No. 5537/14