People v Hiler, John J.
Motion No: 2024-00618
Slip Opinion No: 2025 NY Slip Op 63895(U)
Decided on March 3, 2025
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

M303278

AFA/

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, J.P.

PAUL WOOTEN

HELEN VOUTSINAS

LAURENCE L. LOVE, JJ.

2024-00618

The People, etc., respondent,

v John J. Hiler, appellant.

(Ind. No. 70948/2021)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered December 20, 2023. Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel to be relieved 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 January 10, 2025, 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 thereto, 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.

CHAMBERS, J.P., WOOTEN, VOUTSINAS and LOVE, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Darrell M. Joseph

Clerk of the Court