People v Wallace, Tashaun
Motion No: 2018-15171
Slip Opinion No: 2023 NY Slip Op 61604(U)
Decided on February 6, 2023
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

M287255

AFA/

ROBERT J. MILLER, J.P.

LINDA CHRISTOPHER

BARRY E. WARHIT

LILLIAN WAN, JJ.

2018-15171

The People, etc., respondent,

v Tashaun Wallace, appellant.

(Ind. No. 1852/2017)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered September 19, 2018. 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 July 1, 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, 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.

MILLER, J.P., CHRISTOPHER, WARHIT and WAN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Maria T. Fasulo

Clerk of the Court