People v Esparragoza, Hansel
Motion No: 2022-07635
Slip Opinion No: 2025 NY Slip Op 77741(U)
Decided on October 1, 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

M308322

AFA/

LARA J. GENOVESI, J.P.

LINDA CHRISTOPHER

LILLIAN WAN

LOURDES M. VENTURA, JJ.

2022-07635

The People, etc., respondent,

v Hansel Esparragoza, appellant.

(Ind. No. 98/2020)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County, rendered August 17, 2022. Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel, in effect, 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 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.

GENOVESI, J.P., CHRISTOPHER, WAN and QUIRK, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Darrell M. Joseph

Clerk of the Court