PEOPLE v. ALICEA

2014-06297. Ind. No. 5772/12.

164 A.D.3d 1253 (2018)

80 N.Y.S.3d 913

2018 NY Slip Op 06024

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Dave Alicea, Appellant.

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

Decided September 12, 2018.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the defendant's application to substitute counsel. Indigent criminal defendants in New York are constitutionally guaranteed the right to effective representation by assigned counsel (see People v Smith, 18 N.Y.3d 588, 592 [2012]). "[T]he right to be represented by counsel of one's own choosing is a valued one, and a defendant...

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