People v. Wagner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Stark, J.), rendered September 27, 1977, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (four counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial ordered. No questions of fact have been raised or considered.
Defendant contends on this appeal, inter alia, that a litany of errors committed by counsel had the effect of depriving him of the effective assistance of counsel. We agree.
As we recently stated, “[t]he right to effective representation is measured by whether, upon the…
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