People v. Wright

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Demarest, J.), rendered October 26, 1999, convicting him of murder in the second degree and reckless endangerment in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention on appeal, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying *527his request, made on the eve of trial, for the substitution of trial counsel. The defendant had been afforded a reasonable opportunity to retain counsel of his own choosing before trial…