People v. Wilder

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (George Covington, J.), rendered November 18, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and sentencing him, as a violent felony offender, to an indeterminate sentence of from 25 years to life imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s contention that the trial court improperly denied his request to represent himself at trial solely because of his limited eleventh-grade education and his lack of legal training is without merit. Had that been the only basis for the court’s ruling, defendant might arguably be correct…