People v. Sargsyan

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel Conviser, J.), rendered January 22, 2009, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree (two counts) and vehicular assault in the first degree, and sentencing him to two concurrent terms of 2V2 years, concurrent with a term of 1 to 3 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s ineffective assistance of counsel claims are unreviewable on direct appeal because they involve matters outside the record concerning counsel’s strategic decisions (see People v Rivera, 71 NY2d 705, 709 [1988]; People v Love, 57 NY2d 998 [1982]).…