People v Arthur Sherwood

Motion No: M-776

Slip Opinion No: 2019 NYSlipOp 70913(U)

Decided on May 21, 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.

May 21, 2019

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent,

v

Arthur Sherwood,

Defendant-Appellant.

An order of this Court having been entered on January 31, 2012 (M-5272), granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from the judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about June 29, 2011, and assigning Richard M. Greenberg, Esq., predecessor counsel to Christina A. Swarns, Esq., Office of the Appellate Defender, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and a motion having been made by successor assigned counsel to relieve such counsel, or, in the alternative, dismissing the appeal, without prejudice to reinstatement. 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn, and otherwise denied.ENTERED: May 21, 2019

_____________________ DEPUTY CLERK

Present - Hon. Dianne T. Renwick, Justice Presiding, Rosalyn H. Richter Peter Tom Marcy L. Kahn Peter H. Moulton, Justices

M-776

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