PEOPLE v. CUMMINGS


269 A.D.2d 541 (2000)

703 N.Y.S.2d 503

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. KEN CUMMINGS, Appellant.

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

Decided February 22, 2000.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that he was denied the effective assistance of trial counsel because counsel voluntarily introduced information regarding the defendant's prior arrests during the trial and subsequently rejected the trial court's proposal for a limiting jury instruction. However, the record reveals that counsel introduced the defendant's prior arrests during the cross-examination...

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