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DEFENSE COUNSEL’S INTRODUCING INTO EVIDENCE A SEARCH WARRANT APPLICATION WHICH IMPLICATED THE DEFENDANT IN CRIMES CONSTITUTED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing defendant’s conviction, determined defense counsel’s placing in evidence a search warrant application which included prejudicial information about crimes involving the defendant amounted to ineffective assistance of counsel:

… [R]ather than a single error, we are confronted with a set of three closely-related errors at two stages of the trial: the failure to redact the irrelevant and prejudicial hearsay from the search warrant application before introducing it for the limited purpose of revealing [the applicant’s] errors; the failure to request a limiting instruction that would have advised the jury of that purpose; and the subsequent failure to object to the prosecutor’s repeated exhortations to the jury to rely on the application’s hearsay information as proof of defendant’s guilt. These errors, as well as the prejudicial testimony elicited from the detective, gain particular significance in the light of the close nature of the other evidence. The admissible proof that defendant constructively possessed the contraband and had the requisite intent to sell, although adequate to support the verdict, was not overwhelming. Further, the information in the application directly contradicted counsel’s theory of defense, which was that the girlfriend, and not defendant, possessed and sold the drugs found in the apartment. Thus, although counsel’s challenged conduct took place in the context of an otherwise effective performance, we find that the cumulative effect of his errors deprived defendant of a fair trial and requires reversal of the judgment … . People v Newman, 2019 NY Slip Op 01263, Third Dept 2-20-19

 

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