People v. Townsend

Appeal by the defendant, by permission, from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marrus, J.), dated July 11, 2012, which denied, without a hearing, his motion pursuant to CPL 440.10 to vacate a judgment of the same court rendered April 7, 2009, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the order is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention on his motion pursuant to CPL 440.10 to vacate his prior judgment of conviction, he was not deprived of the effective…