Defendant's ineffective assistance claim rests primarily on matters dehors the record including questions of trial strategy. Although defendant included one branch of his present claim in a CPL 440.10 motion, that motion was denied, and leave to appeal to this Court was also denied. Accordingly, our review of defendant's ineffective assistance claim is limited to the trial record, which establishes that defendant received meaningful representation (see, People v Benevento...
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