People v Avoudramane Fofene .

Motion No: M-2418

Slip Opinion No: 2018 NYSlipOp 78603(U)

Decided on July 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.

July 26, 2018

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent,

v

Avoudramane Fofene,

Defendant-Appellant.

An order of this Court having been entered on November 17, 2016 (M-3390), inter alia, granting defendant-appellant's motion for leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about June 29, 2016, and assigning the Office of the Appellate Defender as counsel therefor, And the Office of the Appellate Defender having moved for an order to be relieved as assigned counsel or, in the alternative, to dismiss defendant-appellant's appeal without prejudice to reinstatement at such time as defendant-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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn. ENTERED: July 26, 2018

_____________________ CLERK

Present - Hon. David Friedman,Justice Presiding, John W. Sweeny, Jr. Troy K. Webber Marcy L. Kahn Jeffrey K. Oing, Justices

M-2418

Ind. No. 4290/15