People v. Baptiste

People v Baptiste (2015 NY Slip Op 07675)
People v Baptiste
2015 NY Slip Op 07675
Decided on October 21, 2015
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
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Decided on October 21, 2015 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
L. PRISCILLA HALL, J.P.
SANDRA L. SGROI
SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX
JOSEPH J. MALTESE, JJ.

1998-08980
(Ind. No. 98-00005)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,

v

Larry Baptiste, appellant.




Larry Baptiste, Comstock, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Thomas P. Zugibe, District Attorney, New City, N.Y. (Carrie A. Ciganek of counsel), for respondent.



DECISION & ORDER

Application by the appellant for a writ of error coram nobis to vacate, on the ground of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel, a decision and order of this Court dated October 2, 2000 (People v Baptiste, 276 AD2d 494), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Rockland County, rendered September 29, 1998.

ORDERED that the application is denied.

The appellant has failed to establish that he was denied the effective assistance of appellate counsel (see Jones v Barnes, 463 U.S. 745; People v Stultz, 2 NY3d 277).

HALL, J.P., SGROI, HINDS-RADIX and MALTESE, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court