People v Guitterez, Rodrigo
Motion No: 2016-08272
Slip Opinion No: 2022 NY Slip Op 72198(U)
Decided on September 23, 2022
Appellate Division, Second 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.


Supreme Court of the State of New York

Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M285075

AFA/FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, J.P.

REINALDO E. RIVERA

JOSEPH A. ZAYAS

WILLIAM G. FORD, JJ.

2016-08272

The People, etc., respondent,

v Rodrigo Guitterez, appellant.

(Ind. No. 1404/2016)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered June 29, 2016. Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel to be relieved of the assignment on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeal by failing to respond to communications by assigned counsel. By order to show cause dated June 8, 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 abandoned the appeal, and assigned counsel's motion was held in abeyance in the interim.

Now, upon the order to show cause and no papers having 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 appeal is granted and the appeal is dismissed; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel's motion is granted.

CONNOLLY, J.P., RIVERA, ZAYAS and FORD, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Maria T. Fasulo

Clerk of the Court