Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M270655

kbp/

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.

JOHN M. LEVENTHAL

SHERI S. ROMAN

ANGELA G. IANNACCI, JJ.

2016-10545 The People, etc., respondent, v Jason Forgetta, appellant. (Ind. No. 6362/14)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel on an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered September 12, 2016, in effect, to be relieved on the ground that the appeal has been rendered academic as the judgment was vacated. By order to show cause dated December 17, 2019, 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 appeal has been rendered academic, 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.

MASTRO, J.P., LEVENTHAL, ROMAN and IANNACCI, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court