People v. Gordon

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marras, J.), rendered March 4, 1996, convicting him of perjury in the first degree (four counts) and offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree, 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 trial counsel. However, mere losing tactics must not be confused with ineffectiveness, and a contention of ineffectiveness requires proof of less than meaningful representation rather than simple…