People v. Azaz

People v Azaz (2017 NY Slip Op 01376)
People v Azaz
2017 NY Slip Op 01376
Decided on February 22, 2017
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
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Decided on February 22, 2017 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.
RUTH C. BALKIN
LEONARD B. AUSTIN
SHERI S. ROMAN, JJ.

2004-09768
(Ind. No. 7571/01)

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

v

Nagmeldeen Azaz, appellant.




Nagmeldeen Azaz, Dannemora, NY, appellant pro se.

Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Ruth E. Ross of counsel), for respondent.

Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, NY, former appellate counsel.



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 June 12, 2007 (People v Azaz, 41 AD3d 610), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered October 12, 2004.

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 US 745; People v Stultz, 2 NY3d 277).

RIVERA, J.P., BALKIN, AUSTIN and ROMAN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court