People v. Albarez

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Rothwax, J.), rendered June 30, 1993, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of from 2 to 6 years, to run consecutively to an unrelated sentence in another case of 1 to 3 years, unanimously affirmed.

There is no merit to defendant’s claim that his right against double jeopardy was violated by the court’s declaration of a mistrial, such declaration having been made before the entire jury panel had been selected and sworn, and thus before jeopardy had attached (People v Singh,…