People v. Linares

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy Kahn, J., at suppression hearing and denial of request for substitution of counsel; Herbert Altman, J., at jury trial, sentence and reconstruction hearing), rendered April 30, 1998, convicting defendant of two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 12 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion when it denied defendant’s request to substitute counsel since defendant failed to demonstrate good cause for such…