People v. Cortes

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Diaz, J.), rendered April 18, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of arson in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 15 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

We find no basis to disturb the hearing court’s factual findings (see, People v Falciglia, 153 AD2d 795, affd 75 NY2d 935) that defendant, a principal in a realty corporation charged with hiring a third party to burn a building purchased only a few days previously by the corporation, was never represented in connection with the instant arson…