People v. Alvarez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward J. McLaughlin, J.), rendered March 21, 2012, as amended March 23, 2012, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a firearm in the first and second degrees and criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 22 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s motion to reassign counsel, made before defendant pleaded guilty, as defendant stated no grounds for counsel’s removal other than defendant’s…