People v Edwin Morel .

Motion No: M-3575

Slip Opinion No: 2019 NYSlipOp 80148(U)

Decided on September 24, 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.

September 24, 2019

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent,

Confidential

v

Edwin Morel,

Defendant-Appellant.

An order of this Court having been entered on

December 22, 2016(M-5089), 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 October 4, 2016, and assigning Rosemary Herbert, 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, to dismiss the appeal as abandoned, 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.ENTERED: September 24, 2019

_____________________ CLERK

Present - Hon. Angela M. Mazzarelli, Justice Presiding, Barbara R. Kapnick Troy K. Webber Ellen Gesmer Cynthia S. Kern, Justices

M-3575

Ind. No. 807/16