People v. Sinatra

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (O’Brien, J.), rendered June 17, 1986, convicting him of burglary in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant claims that he was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel. Some of the occurrences to which he now objects were matters of unsuccessful trial strategy, in-*647eluding counsel’s failure to engage the defendant in redirect examination. He further claims that there was "open hostility” between himself and defense counsel which led to a…