Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M276667

AFA/

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, J.P.

LEONARD B. AUSTIN

VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON

ANGELA G. IANNACCI, JJ.

2017-13502 The People, etc., respondent, v Andres Grisales, appellant. (Ind. No. 356/2017)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered November 27, 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 appeal by failing to respond to communications by assigned counsel. By order to show cause dated February 19, 2021, 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 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.

CHAMBERS, J.P., AUSTIN, BRATHWAITE NELSON and IANNACCI, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court