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PEOPLE v. RICHARDS

12840, 1549/09.

118 A.D.3d 599 (2014)

987 N.Y.S.2d 847

2014 NY Slip Op 4688

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JOSEPH RICHARDS, Appellant.

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

Decided June 24, 2014.

The court did not deprive defendant of his right of self-representation. Defendant failed to make a clear and unequivocal request to represent himself (see People v McIntyre, 36 N.Y.2d 10, 17 [1974]; People v Ramos, 35 A.D.3d 247 [1st Dept 2006], lv denied 8 N.Y.3d 924 [2007]), and thus did not express the "definitive commitment to self-representation" (People v LaValle,

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