Matter of 160 E. 84th St. v. New York State Div. of Hous. & Community Renewal

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• holding that where trial and appellate counsel are both employed by same law firm, defendant may raise an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim for the first time in a motion for a new trial even though appellate counsel failed to raise the claim on direct appeal
• holding that where trial and appellate counsel are both employed by same law firm, defendant may raise an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim for the first time in a motion for a new trial even though appellate counsel failed to raise the claim on direct appeal
• “[T]he Commonwealth’s use of the defendant’s postarrest silence against him violated one of the defendant’s core constitutional protections”
• defendant retained ineffective assistance of counsel claim not raised on direct appeal where trial and appellate counsel both from same agency

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