People v. Monegro

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Micki Scherer, J.), rendered March 24, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree (two counts) and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 13 years, 13 years and 1 year, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s compromise Sandoval ruling balanced the appropriate factors and was a proper exercise of discretion (see, People v Walker, 83 NY2d 455, 458-459).

*279The court properly denied defendant’s request for new counsel, made as the trial was…