People v Kazzim Cooper

Motion No: M-3358

Slip Opinion No: 2019 NYSlipOp 77668(U)

Decided on August 20, 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.

August 20, 2019

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent,

v

Kazzim Cooper,

Defendant-Appellant.

An order of this Court having been entered on January 14, 2016 (M-6351), 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 August 14, 2015, and assigning Richard M. Greenberg, Esq., predecessor counsel to Christina Swarns, Esq., Office of the Appellate Defender, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and a motion having been made 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 granted to the extent of striking the designation of Christina Swarns, Esq., as counsel and substituting, pursuant to Section 722 of the County Law, Robert S. Dean, Esq., Center for Appellate Litigation, 120 Wall Street, 28th Floor, New York, New York 10006, Telephone No. 212-577-2523, as such counsel. The poor person relief previously granted is continued, and the appeal is adjourned to the

December 2019 Term, pending further motion practice by newly assigned counsel, if so advised.ENTERED: August 20, 2019

_____________________ DEPUTY CLERK

Present - Hon. Judith J. Gische,Justice Presiding, Marcy L. Kahn Jeffrey K. Oing Anil C. Singh Peter H. Moulton,Justices

M-3358

Ind. No. 4753/13