People v. Deacon

— Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Miller, J.), rendered January 12, 1990, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts), robbery in the first degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in declining to grant a continuance to permit defense counsel to speak with a subpoenaed, incarcerated, and uncooperative *844witness. While as a " 'general matter of policy, requests for brief…