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DEFENDANT WAS ENTITLED TO A HEARING ON HIS MOTION TO VACATE HIS CONVICTION ON INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE GROUNDS; DEFENDANT AVERRED HIS ATTORNEY DIDN’T REQUEST THE SEARCH WARRANT DOCUMENTS, DIDN’T MAKE A SUPPRESSION MOTION, AND DIDN’T INFORM HIM THAT THE LEGALITY OF THE SEARCH WARRANTS COULD BE CONTESTED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant was entitled to a hearing on his motion to vacate his conviction on the ground of ineffective assistance of counsel. Defendant alleged his attorney did not “request and review the search warrant affidavits, move to controvert the search warrants, or advise him before he pleaded guilty that challenging the legality of the search warrants was an option:”

Defense counsel’s “investigation of the law, the facts, and the issues that are relevant to the case” is “[e]ssential to any representation, and to the attorney’s consideration of the best course of action on behalf of the client” … . Accordingly, a defendant’s right to representation entitles him or her “‘to have counsel conduct appropriate investigations, both factual and legal, to determine if matters of defense can be developed, and to allow himself [or herself] time for reflection and preparation for trial'” … . Here, the defendant’s averments in his affidavit, along with other evidence submitted in support of his motion, were sufficient to warrant a hearing on the issue of whether his former counsel was ineffective for failing to conduct an appropriate investigation to determine whether pretrial motions concerning the search warrants should be made, and failing to advise him of potential challenges to the legality of the search warrants before he pleaded guilty to possession counts predicated on physical evidence recovered pursuant to the warrants … . People v Tindley, 2022 NY Slip Op 00886, Second Dept 2-9-22

 

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