People v. Laws

*213Judgments, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan Sudolnik, J.), rendered April 19, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees and bail jumping in the second degree, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of 4 to 8 years, unanimously affirmed.

After a thorough inquiry, the court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant’s request for new counsel, made as jury selection was about to begin, since defendant did not establish good cause for a substitution (see People v Sides, 75 NY2d 822, 825 [1990]; People v…