Opinion
1996-04812
May 28, 2002.
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 December 7, 1998 (People v. Ortega, 256 A.D.2d 360), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered May 21, 1996.
Luis Ortega, Attica, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Merri Turk Lasky, and Michael D. Tarbutton of counsel), for respondent.
ANITA R. FLORIO, J.P., SONDRA MILLER, CORNELIUS J. O'BRIEN, GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
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).
FLORIO, J.P., S. MILLER, O'BRIEN and KRAUSMAN, JJ., concur.