People v. Pruitt

People v Pruitt (2016 NY Slip Op 08544)
People v Pruitt
2016 NY Slip Op 08544
Decided on December 21, 2016
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
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Decided on December 21, 2016 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.
REINALDO E. RIVERA
JOHN M. LEVENTHAL
COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ.

1991-02504
(Ind. No. 3169/89)

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

v

Frank Pruitt, appellant.




Frank Pruitt, Attica, NY, appellant pro se.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, and Merri Turk Lasky 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 February 1, 1993 (People v Pruitt, 190 AD2d 692), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered February 21, 1991.

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).

MASTRO, J.P., RIVERA, LEVENTHAL and DUFFY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court