People v. Ramjit

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Kohm, J.), rendered May 8, 2007, convicting him of assault in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel as a result of defense counsel’s failure to pursue an intoxication defense. However, a defense of intoxication would have been inconsistent with the defendant’s grand jury testimony that he had not consumed any alcohol before the incident. Instead, defense counsel argued during…