People v Nikim M.

Motion No: M-1875

Slip Opinion No: 2018 NYSlipOp 75943(U)

Decided on June 26, 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 26, 2018

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent, CONFIDENTIAL

v

Nikim M.,

Defendant-Appellant.

An appeal having been taken from the judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about November 6, 2015, And an order of this Court having been entered on October 6, 2017 (M-3796), granting defendant leave to prosecute his appeal as a poor person and assigning Christina Swarns, Esq., The Office of the Appellate Defender, to prosecute the appeal, And the Office of the Appellate Defender having moved

to be relieved as defendant's counsel or, in the alternative,

to dismiss the appeal as abandoned, without prejudice to reinstatement at a later time, 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn, and otherwise denied.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 26, 2018

_____________________ CLERK

Present - Hon. John W. Sweeny, Jr., Justice Presiding, Troy K. Webber Ellen Gesmer Anil C. Singh,Justices

M-1875

Ind. No. 4582/14