People v. Richards

People v Richards (2016 NY Slip Op 04737)
People v Richards
2016 NY Slip Op 04737
Decided on June 15, 2016
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
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Decided on June 15, 2016 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
JOHN M. LEVENTHAL, J.P.
ROBERT J. MILLER
COLLEEN D. DUFFY
FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, JJ.

1996-07904
(Ind. No. 5576/81)

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

v

Justo Richards, appellant.




Justo Richards, Attica, NY, appellant pro se.

Kenneth P. Thompson, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Sholom J. Twersky 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 August 5, 1985 (People v Richards, 112 AD2d 957), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered January 4, 1983.

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).

LEVENTHAL, J.P., MILLER, DUFFY and CONNOLLY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court