Opinion
Submitted March 26, 2001
April 16, 2001
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Knipel, J.), rendered July 19, 1999, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, robbery in the second degree, grand larceny in the fourth degree, menacing in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Robert E. Nicholson, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant.
Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Morgan J. Dennehy of counsel), for respondent.
Before: DAVID S. RITTER, J.P., GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, SONDRA MILLER, SANDRA J. FEUERSTEIN, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed. Contrary to his contention, the defendant received the effective assistance of counsel (see, People v. Sinclair, 266 A.D.2d 482). "Mere losing tactics are not to be confused with ineffectiveness, and to sustain a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel, proof of less than meaningful representation is required, rather than disagreement with counsel's strategies and tactics" (People v. Sinclair, supra, at 482).
The sentence imposed was not excessive (see, People v. Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80).
RITTER, J.P., KRAUSMAN, S. MILLER and FEUERSTEIN, JJ., concur.