People v. Hampton

*1132Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon a jury verdict of robbery in the first degree (Penal Law § 160.15 [4]). He was sentenced, as a second felony offender, to a determinate term of incarceration of 24 years to be followed by a five-year period of postrelease supervision. We reject defendant’s contention that Supreme Court erred in failing to rule on his pretrial request for substitution of counsel. “Although the court should have expressly denied defendant’s motion on the record, we conclude that the record is sufficient to establish conclusively that the motion…