Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M263286

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WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.

JOSEPH J. MALTESE

FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY

ANGELA G. IANNACCI, JJ.

2016-12925 The People, etc., respondent, v Braulio A. LaGrange, appellant. (S.C.I. No. 1781/16)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel on an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered November 3, 2016, 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 April 15, 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 has abandoned the appeal, and the motion by assigned counsel 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 the motion by assigned counsel 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 the motion by assigned counsel is granted.

MASTRO, J.P., MALTESE, CONNOLLY and IANNACCI, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court