People v. Richards

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Murphy, J.), rendered March 11, 1993, convicting him of attempted criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. Assigned counsel has submitted a brief in accordance with Anders v California (386 US 738), in which he moves to be relieved of the assignment to prosecute this appeal.

Ordered that the motion is granted, Thomas Andrew O’Keefe is relieved as attorney for the defendant, and he is directed to turn over all the papers in his possession to new…