People v. Smith

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Condon, J.), rendered February 8, 2013, convicting him of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree, false personation, and failure to obey a traffic control device, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, although the Supreme Court was unable to conduct a searching inquiry of the defendant with respect to the implications of self-representation, such an inability was due to the defendant’s own conduct, and…