People v. Brown

The same principles and reasoning that require affirmance in People v. Tomaselli, also decided today (7 N Y 2d 350), call for affirmance here.

Apart from the accusation that there was “ a strong indication of conspiracy between the defense counsel and prosecuting attorney ’ ’, which the dissenting opinion accurately characterizes as “ merely conclusory ” (p. 362), the petition in effect does no more than assert that the defendant’s court-appointed counsel made an error of judgment in conducting the trial of the case. This obviously affords no basis for post-conviction relief.

Specifically, the…