Opinion
July 9, 1990
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Fisher, J.).
Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.
The defendant's contention that his sentence constituted cruel and inhuman punishment is without merit. The record does not support the defendant's argument that he was given a consecutive sentence to punish him for asserting his right to a trial. As the Trial Judge explained, the pretrial offer of concurrent time was a benefit which the defendant rejected, so that he may not now complain that the benefit was withdrawn. Bracken, J.P., Lawrence, Eiber, Harwood and Rosenblatt, JJ., concur.