People v. Finger

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph Cerbone, J.), rendered August 19, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree, escape in the second degree and criminal mischief in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to consecutive terms of three years and 2 to 4 years to run concurrently with a term of one year, unanimously affirmed.

The court was not required to conduct a “searching inquiry” since defendant did not proceed pro se, but merely participated in the defense of his case by cross-examining, or conducting a…