People v. Brown

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered October 18, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of robbery in the first degree and assault in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to consecutive terms of 8 to 16 years and 9 to 18 years on the robbery convictions, to run concurrently with a prison term of 1 year on the assault conviction, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s claim that he was denied effective assistance of trial counsel by counsel’s question that assertedly opened the door to defendant’s prior criminal…