Opinion
March 1, 1993
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Kreindler, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the defense counsel's application to be relieved of his representation of the defendant. While the trial court is under a continuing duty to carefully evaluate complaints about assigned counsel to assure that the defendant is receiving effective representation (see, People v. Green, 181 A.D.2d 693), good cause to justify a substitution must be shown (see, People v. Peterkin, 133 A.D.2d 472). Under the circumstances presented here, substitution of counsel was not warranted. Bracken, J.P., Lawrence, Miller, Copertino and Santucci, JJ., concur.