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PEOPLE v. SMITH

No. 22.

18 N.Y.3d 588 (2012)

965 N.E.2d 232

942 N.Y.S.2d 5

2012 NY Slip Op 1097

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. KEVIN SMITH, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided February 14, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Office of the Appellate Defender, New York City (Richard M. Greenberg of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York City (Hilary Hassler and Mary C. Farrington of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge LIPPMAN and Judges CIPARICK, GRAFFEO, READ and SMITH concur with Judge JONES; Judge PIGOTT concurs in result in a separate opinion.

OPINION OF THE COURT

JONES, J.

The issues before this Court are whether Supreme Court abused its discretion by denying defendant's request for the substitution of assigned counsel and by issuing a Sandoval ruling which permitted the prosecutor to refer to defendant's prior drug-related felony convictions by naming the specific crimes, should he choose to testify. We hold that it did not.

On April 25, 2007, defendant was arrested for the sale...

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