Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M273366

AFA/

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

SHERI S. ROMAN

COLLEEN D. DUFFY

BETSY BARROS, JJ.

2017-08319, 2017-08322 The People, etc., respondent, v Trumane Gibbs, appellant. (Ind. Nos. 429/2017, 323/2016)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeals from two judgments of the Supreme Court, Kings County, both rendered June 21, 2017. Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel, in effect, to be relieved of the assignment 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 August 20, 2020, 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 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 no papers filed in opposition 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.

RIVERA, J.P., ROMAN, DUFFY and BARROS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court