People v. Santos

Judgment Supreme Court, New York County (Budd G. Goodman, J.), rendered October 10, 2002, convicting him, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 6 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

While it appears that defendant served a pro se motion for assignment of new counsel upon the People, the record does not establish that defendant ever filed that motion with the court. Even assuming that defendant filed the motion, he abandoned it by failing to call the court’s attention to the fact…