People v Mercado, Matthew L.
Motion No: 2023-03857
Slip Opinion No: 2024 NY Slip Op 71475(U)
Decided on July 24, 2024
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

M297966

AFA/

FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, J.P.

WILLIAM G. FORD

BARRY E. WARHIT

HELEN VOUTSINAS, JJ.

2023-03857

The People, etc., respondent,

v Matthew L. Mercado, appellant.

(Ind. Nos. 70138/2020, 238/2020)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County, rendered February 22, 2023. Motion by appellant to relieve assigned counsel and for the assignment of new counsel. The appellant's motion for leave to prosecute the appeal as a poor person and for the assignment of counsel was granted on November 29, 2023, and the following named attorney was assigned as counsel to prosecute the appeal:

Geoffrey E. Chanin

P.O. Box 967

Goshen, NY 10924

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

ORDERED that the motion is granted, and the former assigned counsel is directed to turn over all papers in the action to new counsel herein assigned; and it is further,

ORDERED that pursuant to County Law § 722 the following named attorney is assigned as counsel to prosecute the appeal:

Matthew Christiana

199 Cook St., Ste. 308

Brooklyn, NY 11206

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 prepared in connection with the appellant's sentencing, including the recommendation sheet and any prior reports on the appellant which are incorporated in or referred to in the report, and to provide additional copies to this Court upon demand; and it is further,

ORDERED that the appellant's time to perfect the appeal is extended; assigned counsel shall prosecute the appeal expeditiously in accordance with this Court's rules (see 22 NYCRR 1250.9) and written directions; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel shall serve a copy of this decision and order on motion upon the clerk of the court from which the appeal is taken.

CONNOLLY, J.P., FORD, WARHIT and VOUTSINAS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Darrell M. Joseph

Clerk of the Court

Appellant's Address:

23-B-1190

Sullivan Corr. Fac.

P.O. Box 116

Fallsburg, NY 12733-0116