People v Legette, Tyahnjaii N.
Motion No: 2015-04997
Slip Opinion No: 2019 NY Slip Op 66526(U)
Decided on March 28, 2019
Appellate Division, Second 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.


Supreme Court of the State of New York

Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M261397

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REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

LEONARD B. AUSTIN

SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX

COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ.

2015-04997

The People, etc., respondent,

v Tyahnjaii N. Legette, appellant.

(Ind. No. 14-00498)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel on an appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County, rendered April 22, 2015, inter alia, to be relieved on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeal by failing to respond to communications by assigned counsel. By order to show cause dated February 7, 2019, the appellant was directed to show cause before this Court why an order should or should not be made and entered dismissing the appeal on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeal, and assigned counsel's motion was held in abeyance in the interim.

Now, upon the order to show cause and the papers filed in response thereto, and upon the papers filed in support of assigned counsel's motion and the papers filed in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion to dismiss the appeal is denied; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel's motion is denied.

RIVERA, J.P., AUSTIN, HINDS-RADIX and DUFFY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court