Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M305900

AFA/

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, J.P.

PAUL WOOTEN

DEBORAH A. DOWLING

LAURENCE L. LOVE, JJ.

2023-08080 The People, etc., respondent, v Robert Bannister, appellant. (Ind. No. 70666/2023)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered August 15, 2023. Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel, in effect, 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 April 30, 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, DOWLING and LOVE, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Darrell M. Joseph

Clerk of the Court