People v. Stewart

Appeal from order, Supreme Court, New York County (Gregory Carro, J.), entered on or about May 18, 2016, which denied defendant’s CPL 440.10 motion to vacate the judgment, held in abeyance, and the matter remanded for a hearing on defendant’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel and a decision de novo on the motion. Appeal from judgment, same court and Justice, rendered March 27, 2013, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 8 years, held in abeyance pending…