People v. Nelson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd G. Goodman, J.), rendered November 19, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 12 years and five years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

After an adequate inquiry, the court properly denied defendant’s request for replacement of his retained counsel by assigned counsel, made as jury selection was about to commence, since defendant did not establish good cause for such relief (see People v…