Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M274219

AFA/

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.

LEONARD B. AUSTIN

ROBERT J. MILLER

FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, JJ.

2019-02729 The People, etc., respondent, v Melvin Velasquez, appellant. (Ind. No. 1731/2018)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered February 8, 2019. Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel, in effect, to be relieved of the assignment on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeal. By order to show cause dated October 9, 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 have 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., AUSTIN, MILLER and CONNOLLY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court