Judgment unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum:
We reject the contention that defendant was deprived of effective assistance of counsel because of an alleged conflict of interest arising from counsel's position as a Town Justice. The fact that counsel had issued a bench warrant to a prosecution witness several months prior to defendant's trial created "only an indirect and distinctly remote possibility" of a conflict (People v Perez,
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