People v. Jackson

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie Wittner, J., at waiver of right to counsel and suppression hearing; James Yates, J., at nonjury trial and sentence), rendered October 16, 1995, convicting defendant of burglary in the first degree and two counts of attempted assault in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 12 V2 to 25 years on the burglary conviction and 2 to 4 years on each of the attempted assault convictions, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was properly permitted to exercise his right to self-representation. The…