People v Walker, 2018 NY Slip Op 00178 [157 AD3d 726]

January 10, 2018

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Ronald Walker, Appellant.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY, for appellant.

Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Jodi L. Mandel of counsel), for respondent.

Appeals by the defendant from two judgments of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gubbay, J.), both rendered July 5, 2016, convicting him of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree under indictment No. 5797/15, and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree under indictment No. 4431/16, upon his pleas of guilty, and imposing sentences. Assigned counsel has submitted a brief in accordance with Anders v California (386 US 738 [1967]), in which he moves for leave to withdraw as counsel for the appellant.

Ordered that the judgments are affirmed.

We are satisfied with the sufficiency of the brief filed by the defendant’s assigned counsel pursuant to Anders v California (386 US 738 [1967]), and, upon an independent review of the record, we conclude that there are no nonfrivolous issues which could be raised on the appeals. Counsel’s application for leave to withdraw as counsel is, therefore, granted ( see id. ; Matter of Giovanni S. [Jasmin A.] , 89 AD3d 252 [2011]; People v Paige , 54 AD2d 631 [1976]; cf. People v Gonzalez , 47 NY2d 606 [1979]). Rivera, J.P., Austin, Roman, Hinds-Radix and Connolly, JJ., concur..