
    The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Oscar Rodriguez, Appellant.
    Submitted November 17, 1997;
    decided February 19, 1998
   Motion for leave to appeal denied. The Court of Appeals restates the rule that denial of a motion for leave to appeal is not equivalent to an affirmance and has no precedential value (see, e.g., Matter of Marchant v Mead-Morrison Mfg. Co., 252 NY 284, 297-298). Motion for poor person relief dismissed as academic.  