Opinion
1997-11100.
Decided on February 2, 2004.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rios, J.), rendered November 17, 1997, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and robbery in the second degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Sharol A. Bland, Bronx, N.Y., for appellant.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, and Thomas Berkman of counsel), for respondent.
Before: DAVID S. RITTER, J.P., GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, SANDRA L. TOWNES and BARRY A. COZIER, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The appellant's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel rests primarily on matter which is dehors the record and therefore cannot be reviewed on direct appeal ( see Matter of James G., 309 A.D.2d 935; People v. Bennett, 284 A.D.2d 338; People v. Sanford, 121 A.D.2d 483). To the extent that we are able to review the claim of ineffective assistance, the defense counsel's performance met the standard of meaningful representation ( see People v. Baldi, 54 N.Y.2d 137).
RITTER, J.P., KRAUSMAN, TOWNES and COZIER, JJ., concur.