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FAILURE TO MOVE TO SUPPRESS EVIDENCE AND FAILURE TO CHALLENGE A FRISK DID NOT CONSTITUTE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL.

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Garcia, determined defense counsel's failure to make a motion to suppress, failure to contest a frisk of defendant's person, and brief statement at sentencing did not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel. The suppression motion would have had little chance of success, the failure to object to the frisk may have been part of a defense strategy and the non-frisk-related evidence was substantial, and the sentencing court was aware of the defendant's position through the pre-sentence report and defendant's statement at sentencing. With respect to the “defense strategy” and “no challenge to the frisk” issues, the court wrote:

Assuming a colorable challenge to the legality of the frisk incident to defendant's detention could be grounded in this record, as the Appellate Division noted, counsel may have made a legitimate strategic decision not to move to suppress … . On this record alone, we have no reason to discount the possible strategic explanations for counsel's decision. Because defendant “made no showing that counsel's failure to seek a suppression hearing was not premised on strategy,” his claim must be rejected … . In addition, because the remaining evidence demonstrated that defendant was in a vehicle containing a number of recently-stolen items, a challenge to the frisk would have had little to no effect on the outcome. People v Carver, 2016 NY Slip Op 04322, CtApp 6-7-16

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