People v. Campos

—Judgment, *238Supreme Court, Bronx County (David Stadtmauer, J.), rendered September 12, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and resentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 6 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s contention that a purported conflict of interest between himself and his trial attorney deprived him of effective assistance of counsel is without merit. Since an attorney’s ethical duty to advance the interest of his or her client is circumscribed by an “equally solemn duty” to…