People v Smith |
2017 NY Slip Op 07755 |
Decided on November 8, 2017 |
Appellate Division, Second Department |
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Decided on November 8, 2017 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.
JOHN M. LEVENTHAL
JOSEPH J. MALTESE
COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ.
2017-04314
(Ind. No. 1845/84)
v
John Smith, appellant.
John Smith, Alden, NY, appellant pro se.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, Ellen C. Abbot, 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 November 14, 1988 (People v Smith, 144 AD2d 505), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered September 11, 1985.
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., LEVENTHAL, MALTESE and DUFFY, JJ., concur.
ENTER:Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court