People v. Divine

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (William T. Martin, J.), rendered May 24, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree (two counts), and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 11 to 22 years, unanimously affirmed. Order of the same court (John Byrne, J.), entered April 6, 1993, denying defendant’s motion pursuant to CPL 440.10, to vacate judgment, unanimously affirmed.

That defendant did not have the same lawyer at every stage of the proceeding did not serve to deny him his right to counsel since the trial court immediately…