People v. Timmons

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan Carey, J.), rendered April 30, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4ti to 9 years and 2V2 to 5 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Since defendant did not proceed "pro se”, but merely "participated” in his defense to the extent of conducting a portion of the cross-examination of one of the People’s witnesses, there was no relinquishment of the right to counsel and thus no…