People v. Garcia
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie Wittner, J.), rendered April 24, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a prison term of 9 years, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly exercised its discretion in denying his request for new counsel without further inquiry, where such request was made as the trial was about to commence and after the denial of defendant’s motion to suppress, since defendant failed to establish good cause. The court’s inquiry, consisting of permitting defendant ample…
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