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PEOPLE v. VILFORT

33 A.D.3d 368 (2006)

822 N.Y.S.2d 62

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. UROVSKY VILFORT, Also Known as WALLY BONNEAU, Appellant.

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

Decided October 5, 2006.

Defendant claims his counsel provided ineffective assistance when, after two prospective jurors said that defendant's failure to testify might impact their decision, counsel declined the court's suggestion that he question them further, and permitted them to be seated without exercising any type of challenge. This claim is unreviewable on direct appeal because it involves matters of strategy outside the record (see People v Rivera...

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