Opinion
2000-01451
January 9, 2003.
February 13, 2003.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (McKay, J.), rendered February 9, 2000, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Andrew C. Fine, New York, N.Y. (Julie Sender of counsel), for appellant.
Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Ann Bordley of counsel), for respondent.
Before: MYRIAM J. ALTMAN, J.P., NANCY E. SMITH, LEO F. McGINITY, SANDRA L. TOWNES, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court providently exercised its discretion in denying the defendant's request for substitution of counsel. The defendant's disagreements with his attorney amounted to little more than a dispute over trial tactics and strategy. Therefore, the defendant failed to establish good cause for assignment of a new attorney (see People v. Sides, 75 N.Y.2d 822, 824; People v. Banks, 265 A.D.2d 163; People v. Marcotte, 237 A.D.2d 379).
ALTMAN, J.P., SMITH, McGINITY and TOWNES, JJ., concur.