Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's contention that he was deprived of due process and the effective assistance of counsel by the Supreme Court's failure to appoint new counsel subsequent to the verdict and prior to a CPL article 730 hearing on the issue of his fitness to proceed to sentencing is unpreserved for appellate review (see People v La Bar,
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