Defendant's claim that he was denied effective assistance of trial counsel by counsel's question that assertedly opened the door to defendant's prior criminal record despite a favorable Sandoval ruling cannot be reviewed on the present record, which shows only that defendant misrepresented his criminal record in response to a single question by counsel to state what crime he had been convicted of and when. Such a claim should have been developed in a CPL article 440...
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