People v. Sanchez

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Solomon, J.), rendered December 12, 2000, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of seven years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s challenge to the voluntariness of his written jury waiver, duly executed in open court after a thorough allocution, requires preservation (People v Johnson, 51 NY2d 986 [1980]), and we decline to review this unpreserved claim in the interest of justice. Were we to review…