People v Richard Williams .

Motion No: M-781

Slip Opinion No: 2020 NYSlipOp 71077(U)

Decided on September 3, 2020

Appellate Division, First Department, Motion Decision

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.

September 3, 2020

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent,

v

Richard Williams,

Defendant-Appellant.

An order of this Court having been entered on July 26, 2018 (M-2239), granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered on or about May 3, 2017, and assigning Seymour W. James, Jr. Esq., predecessor to Janet E. Sabel, Esq., The Legal Aid Society, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and assigned counsel having moved to be relieved and to substitute other counsel, Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of striking the designation of Janet E. Sabel, Esq., as successor to Seymour W. James, Jr., Esq., The Legal Aid Society, as assigned counsel and substituting, pursuant to Section 722 of the County Law, Robert S. Dean, Esq., Center for Appellate Litigation, 120 Wall Street, 28th Floor, New York, New York 10005, Telephone No. 212-577-2523, as such counsel. The poor person relief previously granted is continued, and appellant's time in which to perfect the appeal is enlarged until 120 days from the date of this order or the filing of the complete record, whichever is later. ENTERED: September 3, 2020

_____________________ CLERK

PRESENT: Hon. Angela M. Mazzarelli, Justice Presiding, Jeffrey K. Oing Anil C. Singh Peter H. Moulton, Justices

M-781

Ind. No. 1018/15