People v. Perry

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Pincus, J.), rendered September 17, 1997, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s waiver of his right to counsel was unequivocal, voluntary, and intelligent (see, People v Smith, 92 NY2d 516, 520; People v Slaughter, 78 NY2d 485, 491; People v Sawyer, 57 NY2d 12, 21, cert denied 459 US 1178). The trial court undertook a sufficiently searching inquiry of the…