Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M271128

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ALAN D. SCHEINKMAN, P.J.

ROBERT J. MILLER

JOSEPH J. MALTESE

BETSY BARROS, JJ.

2018-13731 The People, etc., respondent, v John Williams, appellant. (Ind. No. 2111/2018)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel on an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered October 9, 2018, in effect, 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 March 2, 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 had abandoned the appeal, and the motion by assigned counsel 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 appeal is granted and the appeal is dismissed; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel's motion is granted.

SCHEINKMAN, P.J., MILLER, MALTESE and BARROS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court