People v. Diaz
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Peter Benitez, J.), rendered October 6, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the first degree, attempted murder in the second degree, assault in the second degree and robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of life without parole, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim is unreviewable on direct appeal since it primarily involves questions of trial strategy and matters outside the record, especially with regard to differences defendant and counsel may have had…
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