The court acted properly, and in any event did not cause defendant any prejudice, when, after defendant's trial counsel declined to represent him at the SORA hearing, it appointed, with defendant's consent, a competent attorney from the County Law article 18-B panel to do so rather than appointing the Legal Aid Society, which was representing defendant on a pending CPL article 440 motion. At no point during the SORA hearing did defendant or his newly assigned counsel object...
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