PEOPLE v. VELEZ


21 A.D.3d 262 (2005)

798 N.Y.S.2d 905

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. MICHAEL VELEZ, Appellant.

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

August 4, 2005.


Defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim rests primarily on matters outside the record and is thus unreviewable on direct appeal. To the extent the present record permits review, it establishes that defendant received effective assistance (see People v. Benevento, 91 N.Y.2d 708, 713-714 [1998]; see also Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 [1984]).

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