People of State of New York v Byron Mendoza
Motion No: 2023-00191 ROCR
Slip Opinion No: 2023 NY Slip Op 70779(U)
Decided on July 25, 2023
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

2023-191 RO CR
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Byron Mendoza, Appellant.

Motion by Ellen O'Hara Woods, Esq., with the office of Public Defender Rockland County, counsel assigned to represent appellant on an appeal from a judgment of conviction of the Justice Court of the Village of Spring Valley, Rockland County, rendered January 24, 2023, to be relieved as counsel 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 Steven Feldman, Esq. is assigned pursuant to article 18-B of the County Law; and it is further,

ORDERED that the office of Public Defender Rockland 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 on motion upon it, the Department of Probation is hereby authorized and directed to provide 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.

ENTER:

Paul Kenny

Chief Clerk