People v. Bilal

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert M. Stolz, J.), rendered December 15, 2010, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of five years, unanimously affirmed. Order, same court and Justice, entered on or about August 9, 2013, which denied defendant’s CPL 440.10 motion to vacate the judgment, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was not deprived of effective assistance of counsel. Although counsel’s failure to move to suppress the weapon had no strategic justification but was based on a misunderstanding…