THE PEOPLE V DANIEL FONTANEZ
Motion No: KA 20-00389
Slip Opinion No: 2025 NY Slip Op 82679(U)
Decided on December 8, 2025
Appellate Division, Fourth 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.


December 8, 2025

PRESENT: WHALEN, P.J., LINDLEY, CURRAN, BANNISTER, AND MONTOUR, JJ.

KA 20-00389
Indictment No: 2019-0574-1

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENT,

V

DANIEL FONTANEZ, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.


Counsel for appellant having moved for permission to withdraw as assigned counsel on an appeal taken herein from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Onondaga County, rendered February 27, 2020, and for reassignment of counsel,

Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the motion insofar as counsel seeks to withdraw is granted, and Philip Rothschild, Esq. is relieved of their assignment, and

It is further ORDERED that the motion insofar as it requests reassignment of counsel is denied, and

It is further ORDERED that the appellant perfect the appeal on or before February 6, 2026, and in the event of failure to so perfect, the appeal is hereby dismissed without further order on the ground that appellant has abandoned the appeal.

Entered: December 8, 2025

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court