People v. Jackson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J., at hearing; Marcy Kahn, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered September 10, 1997, convicting defendant of burglary in the *328second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 18 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment on the ground that he had been denied his right to appear before the grand jury (see CPL 190.50 [5] [a]), since the People did provide defendant with an opportunity to so appear. Defendant’s claim of ineffective…