PEOPLE v. DEGRACIA

2016-01770, Ind. No. 802/14.

173 A.D.3d 1199 (2019)

101 N.Y.S.3d 628

2019 NY Slip Op 05144

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Rigoberto Degracia, Appellant.

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

Decided June 26, 2019.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's contention that the Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in denying, without further inquiry, his request for new assigned counsel, made prior to the start of jury selection, is without merit. "`The right of an indigent criminal defendant to the services of a court-appointed lawyer does not encompass a right to appointment of successive lawyers at defendant's option'" (People v King,

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