People v. Bello

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Leslie Crocker Snyder, J.), rendered April 16, 2002, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of conspiracy in the first degree and murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 22 years to life and 15 years to life, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

*153Defendant’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim, based on counsel’s alleged failure to investigate the facts and law of the case, is unreviewable on direct appeal since it involves matters outside the record that would require an expansion of the record by way of a CPL…