People v. Samuels
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Albert Lorenzo, J.), entered March 9, 2015, which denied defendant’s CPL 440.10 motion to vacate a May 11, 2010 judgment of conviction, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a hearing on defendant’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.
A court considering a CPL 440.10 motion challenging the validity of a plea and raising the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel must be guided by certain principles. The “longstanding test for determining the validity of a guilty plea is whether the plea represents a voluntary and…
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