Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the County Court improvidently exercised its discretion in denying, without further inquiry, his request for new assigned counsel, made four days prior to the start of pretrial hearings. When a defendant's request on its face suggests a serious possibility of irreconcilable conflict with defense counsel, the trial court is obliged to make some minimal inquiry to determine whether the request has a...
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