People v. Estrada

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Andrias, J.), rendered December 2, 1994, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of two counts of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly exercised its discretion in denying defense counsel’s application for a new competency examination for his client, who had previously been found competent (see, People v Rivera, 241 AD2d 301). The court properly relied on its own observations, including defendant’s…