People v. Brown

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Martin Marcus, J.), rendered May 25, 2005, 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, to a term of JVa to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

On the existing record, to the extent it permits review, we find that defendant received effective assistance under the state and federal standards (see People v Benevento, 91 NY2d 708, 713-714 [1998]; see also Strickland v Washington, 466 US 668 [1984]). Although at the suppression hearing an officer testified…