Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M310875

DF/

ANGELA G. IANNACCI, J.P.

VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON

PAUL WOOTEN

JANICE A. TAYLOR, JJ.

2022-02491 The People, etc., respondent, v Rakim Williams, appellant. (Ind. No. 1690/2020)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered March 29, 2022. Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel, inter alia, 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 October 27, 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 the motion and no papers having been filed in opposition or 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.

IANNACCI, J.P., BRATHWAITE NELSON, WOOTEN and TAYLOR, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Darrell M. Joseph

Clerk of the Court