Opinion
April 29, 1991
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Quinones, J.).
Ordered that the amended judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the judgment of conviction should be reversed because he was denied counsel of his own choosing. We find that the trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in refusing the defendant's request for an opportunity to retain new counsel in place of his assigned counsel. The defendant failed to show good cause for a substitution and did not make known his dissatisfaction with counsel until the first day of jury selection (see, People v Medina, 44 N.Y.2d 199; People v. Daniels, 156 A.D.2d 705; cf., People v. Sides, 75 N.Y.2d 822). Harwood, J.P., Balletta, Rosenblatt and O'Brien, JJ., concur.