People v Morgan

People v Morgan 2009 NY Slip Op 05877 [64 AD3d 667] July 14, 2009 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, September 2, 2009

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Reynaldo Morgan, Appellant.

—[*1] Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Winston McIntosh of counsel), for appellant.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Morgan J. Dennehy of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marrus, J.), rendered December 5, 2002, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant's contention, he was not denied the effective assistance of trial counsel. Viewing the evidence, the law, and the circumstances of this case in their totality and as of the time of the representation, we find that the defendant was afforded meaningful representation at trial (see People v Benevento, 91 NY2d 708, 712 [1998]; People v Baldi, 54 NY2d 137, 147 [1981]). Spolzino, J.P., Angiolillo, Chambers and Lott, JJ., concur.