People v. Gonzalez

—Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph Mazur, J.), entered January 8, 1992, which granted defendant’s motion to suppress physical evidence, unanimously dismissed, with leave to reinstate within one year of the entry of this order, upon submission of proof of service of appellant’s brief upon defendant.

The record reveals that only trial counsel but not defendant himself, has been served with the People’s appellate brief. Since trial counsel’s responsibility to represent defendant terminated at the conclusion of the proceedings below, and since trial counsel has not…