Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by vacating the conviction of criminal contempt in the second degree and the sentence imposed thereon, and dismissing that count of the indictment; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's contention that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel due to defense counsel's alleged failure to communicate with him during a two-week recess in the trial, based on counsel's mistaken belief that such...
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