People v Jose A. Jerez .

Motion No: M-270

Slip Opinion No: 2019 NYSlipOp 67441(U)

Decided on April 9, 2019

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.

April 9, 2019

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent,

v

Jose A. Jerez,

Defendant-Appellant.

An order of this Court having been entered on

April 17, 2018 (M-576), granting defendant-appellant's application for leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from the judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about September 23, 2014, and assigning Christina Swarns, Esq., Office of the Appellate Defender, as counsel to prosecute the appeal, And an order of this Court having been entered on

November 1, 2018, denying defendant-appellant's pro se motion to relieve assigned counsel and substitute new counsel (M-4378), And defendant having, pro se, renewed his motion to relieve assigned counsel and substitute new counsel therefor, and for related relief, Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and the correspondence from Jose A. Jerez, dated March 8, 2019 and March 10, 2019, and due deliberation having been had thereon,It is ordered that the motion is denied. ENTERED: April 9, 2019

_____________________ CLERK

At a Term of the Appellate Division of the SupremeCourt held in and for the First Judicial Department in the County of New York on April 9, 2019.

Present - Hon. Rolando T. Acosta, Presiding Justice, Rosalyn H. Richter Sallie Manzanet-Daniels Peter Tom Peter H. Moulton, Justices

M-270

Ind. No. 2408/11