Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M282924

AFA/

BETSY BARROS, J.P.

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS

ROBERT J. MILLER

JOSEPH A. ZAYAS, JJ.

2018-15131, 2018-15132 The People, etc., respondent, v Robert Brown, appellant. (S.C.I. Nos. 85/2016, 104/2016)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

2018-15133

The People, etc., respondent,

v Robert Brown, appellant.

(S.C.I. No. 111/16)

Appeals from three judgments of the Supreme Court, Kings County, all rendered November 8, 2018. Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel, in effect, to be relieved of the assignment on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeals by failing to respond to communications by assigned counsel. By order to show cause dated March 16, 2022, the appellant was directed to show cause before this Court why an order should not be made and entered dismissing the appeals on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeals, 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 appeals is granted and the appeals are dismissed; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel's motion is granted.

BARROS, J.P., CHAMBERS, MILLER and ZAYAS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Maria T. Fasulo

Clerk of the Court