Opinion
07-26-2017
The PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Phillip ALMEDA, appellant.
Phillip Almeda, Dannemora, NY, appellant pro se. Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Jodi L. Mandel, and Rebecca L. Visgaitis of counsel), for respondent. Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, NY (Lisa Napoli of counsel), former appellate counsel.
Phillip Almeda, Dannemora, NY, appellant pro se.
Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Jodi L. Mandel, and Rebecca L. Visgaitis of counsel), for respondent.
Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, NY (Lisa Napoli of counsel), former appellate counsel.
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 August 2, 2004 (People v. Almeda, 10 A.D.3d 367, 780 N.Y.S.2d 377 ), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered April 5, 2001.
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 ).
MASTRO, J.P., BALKIN, ROMAN and LaSALLE, JJ., concur.