Opinion
2019–10261 Ind. No. 3114/12
09-30-2020
The PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Lonnie MILLER, appellant.
Randall D. Unger, Kew Gardens, NY, for appellant. Melinda Katz, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (Johnnette Traill, Joseph N. Ferdenzi, and Roni C. Piplani of counsel), for respondent.
Randall D. Unger, Kew Gardens, NY, for appellant.
Melinda Katz, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (Johnnette Traill, Joseph N. Ferdenzi, and Roni C. Piplani of counsel), for respondent.
ALAN D. SCHEINKMAN, P.J., REINALDO E. RIVERA, RUTH C. BALKIN, ANGELA G. IANNACCI, JJ.
DECISION & ORDER Appeal by the defendant, by permission, from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Stephen Knopf, J.), dated July 26, 2019, which, without a hearing, denied his motion pursuant to CPL 440.10 to vacate a judgment of the same court, rendered December 18, 2015, convicting him of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed.
We agree with the Supreme Court's determination to deny, without a hearing, the defendant's motion pursuant to CPL 440.10 to vacate his judgment of conviction. In his motion to vacate the judgment, the defendant's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was largely based upon unsubstantiated and self-serving allegations (see CPL 440.30[4][b], [d] ; People v. Allen, 174 A.D.3d 815, 102 N.Y.S.3d 880 ; People v. Wilson, 141 A.D.3d 737, 35 N.Y.S.3d 482 ). The defendant was not deprived of the effective assistance of counsel under the New York Constitution since, viewing defense counsel's performance in totality, counsel provided meaningful representation (see People v. Benevento, 91 N.Y.2d 708, 713, 674 N.Y.S.2d 629, 697 N.E.2d 584 ; People v. Baldi, 54 N.Y.2d 137, 144, 444 N.Y.S.2d 893, 429 N.E.2d 400 ). Further, the defendant was not deprived of the effective assistance of counsel under the United States Constitution (see Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 ).
SCHEINKMAN, P.J., RIVERA, BALKIN and IANNACCI, JJ., concur.