PEOPLE v. FERNANDEZ


276 A.D.2d 352 (2000)

714 N.Y.S.2d 461

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. HUMBERTO FERNANDEZ, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided October 17, 2000.


The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence. The evidence warranted the conclusion that the deceased was the same person shot at by defendant in close spatial and temporal proximity to the discovery of the body.

Since defendant's ineffective assistance claim rests on a strategic decision by counsel of a type that would necessitate explanation, this claim would require a CPL 440.10 motion. While defendant asserts that such a motion was made, no such motion...

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