Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
We find unpersuasive the defendant's contention that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel. While the defendant's trial counsel may have employed some strategy which ultimately proved unsuccessful, "[i]t is now a firmly established rule of New York law that a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel may not be premised solely upon trial counsel's unsuccessful employment of a trial strategy" (People v Sullivan...
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