People v. Jackson

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward Sheridan, J.), rendered July 7, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to 51/2 to 11 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant’s request for new counsel made in the course of jury selection, where the basis for defendant’s application was counsel’s perceived inability to obtain a more lenient plea offer (People v Byas, 211 AD2d 562). Defendant’s complaint about the…