People v. Boucac

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Rothwax, J.), rendered December 4, 1996, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 41/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

*298After affording defendant ample opportunity to be heard, the court properly denied defendant’s application, made at the outset of jury selection, for assignment of new counsel, since defendant’s complaints about his attorney clearly lacked substance. The court satisfactorily addressed…