Opinion
2012–07681 Ind. No. 3013/09
04-10-2019
The PEOPLE, etc., Respondent, v. Timothy CERUTI, Appellant.
Timothy Ceruti, Elmira, NY, appellant pro se. Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (Johnnette Traill, Nancy Fitzpatrick Talcott, and Mariana Zelig of counsel), for respondent. Paul Skip Laisure, New York, N.Y. (A. Alexander Donn of counsel), former appellate counsel.
Timothy Ceruti, Elmira, NY, appellant pro se.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (Johnnette Traill, Nancy Fitzpatrick Talcott, and Mariana Zelig of counsel), for respondent.
Paul Skip Laisure, New York, N.Y. (A. Alexander Donn of counsel), former appellate counsel.
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P., MARK C. DILLON, JEFFREY A. COHEN, HECTOR D. LASALLE, JJ.
DECISION & ORDERApplication 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 4, 2015 ( People v. Ceruti , 133 A.D.3d 610, 20 N.Y.S.3d 378 ), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered July 5, 2012.
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, 103 S.Ct. 3308, 77 L.Ed.2d 987 ; People v. Stultz , 2 N.Y.3d 277, 778 N.Y.S.2d 431, 810 N.E.2d 883 ).
RIVERA, J.P., DILLON, COHEN and LASALLE, JJ., concur.