Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M285074

AFA/

FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, J.P.

REINALDO E. RIVERA

JOSEPH A. ZAYAS

WILLIAM G. FORD, JJ.

2020-04876, 2020-04877 The People, etc., respondent, v Jessie Lucas, appellant. (Ind. Nos. 1684/2018, 42259/2018)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeals from two judgments of the Supreme Court, Queens County, both rendered June 11, 2019. Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel, inter alia, 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 June 8, 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 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 appeals is granted and the appeals are 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