Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M270019

kbp/

MARK C. DILLON, J.P.

RUTH C. BALKIN

LEONARD B. AUSTIN

COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ.

2018-11832, 2018-11833 The People, etc., respondent, v Idris Browning, appellant. (S.C.I. Nos. 2025/18, 2026/18)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel on appeals from two judgments of the Supreme Court, Queens County, both rendered September 6, 2018, in effect, to be relieved on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeals by failing to respond to communications by assigned counsel. By order to show cause dated December 18, 2019, the appellant was directed to show cause before this Court why an order should not be made and entered dismissing the appeals on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeals, and assigned counsel's motion 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 assigned counsel's motion and the papers filed in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion to dismiss the appeals is granted and the appeals are dismissed; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel's motion is granted.

DILLON, J.P., BALKIN, AUSTIN and DUFFY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court