People v. Padgett

*1167The defendant’s contention that he was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel by virtue of his attorney’s failure to make a certain argument in support of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence is without merit. Defense counsel’s argument that the physical evidence did not belong to the defendant — rather than pursuing the argument that the physical evidence belonged to the defendant but should be suppressed because the police lacked reasonable suspicion to detain him — was a legitimate trial tactic and, thus, constituted meaningful…