Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M270322

kbp/

ALAN D. SCHEINKMAN, P.J.

RUTH C. BALKIN

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS

PAUL WOOTEN, JJ.

2018-15089 The People, etc., respondent, v Neptali Sanchez, appellant. (Ind. No. 1549N/18)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel on an appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County, rendered November 21, 2018, in effect, to be relieved on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeal by failing to communicate with assigned counsel. By order to show cause dated January 6, 2020, the appellant was directed to show cause before this Court why an order should not be made and entered dismissing the appeal on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeal, 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 no papers having been filed in opposition or 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 assigned counsel's motion is granted.

SCHEINKMAN, P.J., BALKIN, CHAMBERS and WOOTEN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court