People v. Benn

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed. Indicted on seven counts, including attempted murder, robbery, criminal use of a firearm and criminal possession of a weapon, defendant was convicted after a jury trial of two *942counts of robbery in the first degree in connection with an armed robbery at a social club in The Bronx. Defendant seeks reversal of his conviction on the sole ground that, at trial, he was denied effective assistance of counsel. Such a contention, necessarily retrospective, requires proof of true ineffectiveness rather than mere…