People of State of New York v Dennis Rodriguez
Motion No: 2021-00475 NCR
Slip Opinion No: 2022 NY Slip Op 76428(U)
Decided on December 19, 2022
Appellate Term, 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.


Appellate Term of the Supreme Court

of the State of New York for the 9th & 10th Judicial Districts

JERRY GARGUILO, P.J.

ELIZABETH H. EMERSON

TIMOTHY S. DRISCOLL, JJ.

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

2021-475 N CR
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Dennis Rodriguez, Appellant.

Motion by the Legal Aid Society of Nassau County, counsel assigned to represent appellant on an appeal from a judgment of conviction of the District Court of Nassau County, First District, rendered August 16, 2021, to be relieved of representing appellant on the appeal and to have other counsel substituted.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in response thereto, it is

ORDERED that the branch of the motion seeking to relieve assigned counsel of representing appellant on the appeal is granted and Martin Goldberg, Esq. is assigned pursuant to article 18-B of the County Law; and it is further,

ORDERED that the Legal Aid Society of Nassau County, shall provide new counsel with all papers; and it is further,

ORDERED, on the court's own motion, that the appeal shall be perfected expeditiously; and it is further,

ORDERED that upon service of a copy of this decision and order upon it, the Department of Probation is hereby authorized and directed to provide newly assigned counsel with a copy of the presentence report, if any, prepared in connection with appellant's sentencing, including the recommendation sheet and any prior reports on appellant which are incorporated or referred to in the report.

Driscoll, J., taking no part.

ENTER:

Paul Kenny

Chief Clerk