PEOPLE v. LAWS


6 A.D.3d 212 (2004)

774 N.Y.S.2d 322

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. ALEXANDER LAWS, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

April 8, 2004.


After a thorough inquiry, the court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant's request for new counsel, made as jury selection was about to begin, since defendant did not establish good cause for a substitution (see People v Sides, 75 N.Y.2d 822, 825 [1990]; People v Sawyer, 57 N.Y.2d 12, 19 [1982], cert denied 459 U.S. 1178 [1983]; People v Medina,

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