The People v. Jorge Espinosa

Summary

The Court of Appeals affirmed the order rejecting Jorge Espinosa's ineffective-assistance claim. The majority assumed that counsel might have had a meritorious Confrontation Clause objection to the admission of DNA reports through an analyst who did not perform or independently analyze the testing, but held that the omitted objection was not so clear-cut and dispositive that no reasonable defense counsel would have failed to raise it and that the record did not establish the absence of legitimate trial strategy.