People v. Beckum

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Felig, J.), rendered July 9, 1987, convicting him of burglary in the first degree and robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that he was deprived of a fair trial as a result of the ineffective assistance of trial counsel. We disagree. It is settled that "trial tactics which terminate unsuccessfully do not automatically indicate ineffectiveness. So long as the evidence, the law, and the circumstances of a particular case,…