People v. Jones

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (George Daniels, J.), rendered Janu*163ary 28, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree, criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree (two counts), criminal trespass in the second degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 16 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in granting defense counsel a half-hour continuance to confer with defendant…