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PEOPLE v. TORRES

60 A.D.3d 584 (2009)

___ N.Y.S.2d ___

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. PHILLIP TORRES, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided March 31, 2009.

The court properly exercised its discretion when it denied defendant's eve-of-trial request for an adjournment to obtain new retained counsel, since defendant did not establish compelling circumstances, or any legitimate basis for the substitution (see People v Arroyave, 49 N.Y.2d 264, 271 [1980]). There is nothing to indicate that his attorney's difficulties in collecting her full fee from defendant created an adversarial relationship...

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