The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, and a new trial ordered.
Defendant argues that, in the absence of a knowing waiver, he was denied effective assistance of counsel due to his defense counsel's concurrent representation of the prosecution's primary witness on an unrelated civil matter (see, People v Gomberg,
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