People v Ivan Morales .

Motion No: M-5064

Slip Opinion No: 2018 NYSlipOp 90746(U)

Decided on December 13, 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.

December 13, 2018

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent,

v

Ivan Morales,

Defendant-Appellant.

An order of this Court having been entered on May 13, 2014 (M-704) granting defendant-appellant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from the judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about November 26, 2013, and assigning Richard M. Greenberg, Esq., predecessor counsel to Christina Swarns, Esq., Office of the Appellate Defender, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and a motion having been made to relieve such counsel, or, in the alternative, to dismiss the appeal without prejudice.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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.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: December 13, 2018

_____________________ CLERK

PRESENT - Hon. David Friedman, Justice Presiding, Barbara R. Kapnick Troy K. Webber Marcy L. Kahn Cynthia S. Kern, Justices

M-5064

Ind. No. 5484/12