Opinion
2009-07672
06-06-2018
The People of the State of New York, respondent, v. Richard West, appellant.
Richard West, Comstock, NY, appellant pro se. Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Victor Barall of counsel), for respondent. Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Kathleen Whooley of counsel), former appellate counsel.
JOHN M. LEVENTHAL SHERI S. ROMAN SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX, JJ. (Ind. No. 1289/07)
Richard West, Comstock, NY, appellant pro se.
Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Victor Barall of counsel), for respondent.
Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Kathleen Whooley of counsel), 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 April 3, 2013 (People v West, 105 AD3d 781), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered August 12, 2009.
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).
BALKIN, J.P., LEVENTHAL, ROMAN and HINDS-RADIX, JJ., concur. ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court