People v. Leath

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Firetog, J.), rendered October 28, 2009, convicting him of murder in the second degree and tampering with physical evidence, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that he was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel. “Under the New York Constitution, ‘[s]o long as the evidence, the law, and the circumstances of a particular case, viewed in totality and as of the time of the representation, reveal that the attorney provided meaningful…