People v. Holland

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Thomas Farber, J.), rendered March 2, 2010, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender previ*493ously convicted of a violent felony, to a term of eight years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

Defendant’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim may be reviewed on direct appeal since this Court is able to determine from the record that there was no conceivable strategic purpose for counsel’s conduct (see…