People v. Pennington
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*270Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael J. Obus, J.), rendered May 3, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of kidnapping in the first degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 20 years to life, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim is unreviewable on direct appeal because it involves matters outside the record concerning counsel’s strategy, particularly with regard to the claim that counsel improperly opened the door to otherwise inadmissible evidence (see People v Rivera, 71 NY2d 705, 709 [1988]; People v Love, 57…
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