Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M270698

kbp/

MARK C. DILLON, J.P.

JOSEPH J. MALTESE

FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY

LINDA CHRISTOPHER, JJ.

2018-11217 The People, etc., respondent, v Juan Carlos Almonte, appellant. (Ind. No. 18-00402)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel on an appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County, rendered August 8, 2018, to be relieved on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeal by failing to respond to communications by assigned counsel. By order to show cause dated February 25, 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 the papers 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.

DILLON, J.P., MALTESE, CONNOLLY and CHRISTOPHER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court