Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M279872

AFA/

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.

REINALDO E. RIVERA

VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON

LINDA CHRISTOPHER, JJ.

2018-14919 The People, etc., respondent, v Samuel Torres, appellant. (Ind. No. 1867/2017)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered November 15, 2017. Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel, in effect, to be relieved of the assignment on the ground that the appeal has been rendered academic. By order to show cause dated September 1, 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 appeal has been rendered academic, 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.

MASTRO, J.P., RIVERA, BRATHWAITE NELSON and CHRISTOPHER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Maria T. Fasulo

Acting Clerk of the Court