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DEFENDANT WAS ENTITLED TO A HEARING ON THE MOTION TO VACATE THE CONVICTION ON INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE GROUNDS DESPITE THE ABSENCE OF AN AFFIDAVIT FROM TRIAL COUNSEL (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant was entitled to a hearing on the motion to vacate the conviction on ineffective assistance grounds, despite the absence of an affidavit from trial counsel:

[Defendant’s] claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was properly raised on his CPL 440.10 motion inasmuch as it is based on matters outside the trial record … . Here, defendant’s submissions on the motion raise factual issues requiring a hearing concerning trial counsel’s failure to interview and call the two exculpatory witnesses … , even in the absence of an affidavit from trial counsel … . We thus conclude that defendant is entitled to a hearing on his entire claim of ineffective assistance of counsel inasmuch as ” ‘such a claim constitutes a single, unified claim that must be assessed in totality’ ” … . People v Ross, 2021 NY Slip Op 04820, Fourth Dept 8-26-21

 

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