Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M280819

AFA/

COLLEEN D. DUFFY, J.P.

FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY

LARA J. GENOVESI

WILLIAM G. FORD, JJ.

2017-08372 The People, etc., respondent, v Ezekiel Thompson, appellant. (Ind. No. 3364/2017)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered June 22, 2017. Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel, in effect, to be relieved of the assignment on the ground that the appellant has absconded and is no longer available to comply with the mandate of the Court, and has failed to respond to communications from assigned counsel. By order to show cause dated November 29, 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 absconded and is no longer available to comply with the mandate of the Court, and has failed to respond to communications from assigned counsel, and assigned counsel's motion was held in abeyance in the interim.

Now, upon the order to show cause and no 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.

DUFFY, J.P., CONNOLLY, GENOVESI and FORD, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Maria T. Fasulo

Clerk of the Court