People v Hamza Sidibe also known as

Motion No: M-262

Slip Opinion No: 2019 NYSlipOp 70926(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

Hamza Sidibe, also known as,

Hamza Sidbe,

Defendant-Appellant.

An order of this Court having been entered on March 21, 2017 [Corrected order November 3, 2017](M-787), granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from the judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered on or about June 28, 2016, and assigning Rosemary Herbert, 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 defendant, pro se, to relieve such counsel, and for related relief, 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 denied. ENTERED: May 21, 2019

_____________________ DEPUTY CLERK

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

M-262

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