Since, as the hearing testimony shows, defendant's trial counsel provided him with effective assistance, we reverse the order vacating the judgment of conviction based on a contrary determination by the trial court and reinstate the same.
After a jury trial, defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree and sentenced to...
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