Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M261689

E/afa

RUTH C. BALKIN, J.P.

JEFFREY A. COHEN

ROBERT J. MILLER

BETSY BARROS, JJ.

2017-11994, 2017-11997, 2017-11998 The People, etc., respondent, v Lavar Sprinkle, appellant. (S.C.I. No. 8522/16; (Ind. Nos. 41014M/16, 41013M/16)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel on appeals from three judgments of the Supreme Court, Kings County, all rendered September 26, 2017, in effect, to be relieved on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeals by failing to respond to communications by assigned counsel. By order to show cause dated February 6, 2019, the appellant was directed to show cause before this Court why an order should or should not be made and entered dismissing the appeals on the ground that the appellant had abandoned the appeals, and assigned counsel's motion was held in abeyance in the interim.

Now, upon the order to show cause and no papers having been 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 appeals is granted and the appeals are dismissed; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel's motion is granted.

BALKIN, J.P., COHEN, MILLER and BARROS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court