People v. White

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Herbert Adlerberg, J., at arraignment; Sheila Abdus-Salaam, J., at jury trial and sentencing), rendered December 1, 1994, convicting defendant of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

*327Defendant was not deprived of the effective assistance of counsel by the arraignment court’s summary denial of his request for the substitution of assigned counsel. Defendant’s assertion that his attorney never advised him of his right to testify before the Grand Jury was…