People v. Zeh

Appeal, by permission, from an order of the *1396County Court of Ulster County (McGinty, J.), entered February 19, 2015, which denied defendant’s motion pursuant to CPL 440.10 to vacate the judgment convicting him of the crime of murder in the second degree, after a hearing.

After a jury trial, defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree for killing his estranged wife. On defendant’s direct appeal, we affirmed the judgment of conviction (289 AD2d 692 [2001]). We noted, however, that defendant’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel could not be resolved on the direct appeal and that…