People v. Bastien

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J.), rendered February 29, 2000, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of murder in the second degree and two counts of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 32 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in declining to order a further competency hearing, since it reasonably concluded, based on the psychiatric report issued at the time of defendant’s most recent competency proceedings, and on its own observations of…