Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M294761

AFA/

HECTOR D. LASALLE, P.J.

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS

HELEN VOUTSINAS

JANICE A. TAYLOR, JJ.

2019-09276, 2019-09458 The People, etc., respondent, v Eddie Suarez, appellant. (Ind. Nos. 295/2018, 24163C/2017)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeals from two judgments of the Supreme Court, Kings County, both rendered July 16, 2019. Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel to be relieved 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 December 27, 2023, 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 the papers 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 to the extent that the appeal under appellate division docket no. 2019-09276 is dismissed, and the motion is otherwise denied; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel's motion is granted to the extent that counsel is relieved of the assignment to prosecute the appeal under appellate division docket no. 2019-09276, and the motion is otherwise denied; and it is further,

ORDERED that the appeals are severed.

LASALLE, P.J., CHAMBERS, VOUTSINAS and TAYLOR, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Darrell M. Joseph

Acting Clerk of the Court