Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M283024

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COLLEEN D. DUFFY, J.P.

ANGELA G. IANNACCI

REINALDO E. RIVERA

JOSEPH A. ZAYAS, JJ.

2017-12348 The People, etc., respondent, v Zameer Mohamed, appellant. (Ind. No. 2065/2016)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered August 17, 2017. Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel, in effect, to be relieved on the ground that the appellant has absconded and is no longer available to comply with the mandate of the Court. By order to show cause dated January 19, 2022, 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 (see People v Taveras, 10 NY3d 227), 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 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.

DUFFY, J.P., IANNACCI, RIVERA and ZAYAS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Maria T. Fasulo

Clerk of the Court