Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M261919

E/afa

MARK C. DILLON, J.P.

ROBERT J. MILLER

SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX

FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, JJ.

2017-12965 The People, etc., respondent, v Daniel Vasquez, appellant. (Ind. No. 945/17)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel on an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, rendered November 30, 2017, in effect, 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 22, 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 had abandoned the appeal, 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 appeal is granted and the appeal is dismissed; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel's motion is granted.

DILLON, J.P., MILLER, HINDS-RADIX and CONNOLLY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court