Opinion
04-29-2015
The PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Jerry BONTON, appellant.
Jerry Bonton, Stormville, N.Y., appellant pro se. Kenneth P. Thompson, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Howard B. Goodman of counsel), for respondent. Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (De Nice Powell of counsel), former appellate counsel.
Jerry Bonton, Stormville, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Kenneth P. Thompson, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Howard B. Goodman of counsel), for respondent.
Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (De Nice Powell of counsel), former appellate counsel.
Opinion
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 May 10, 2004 (People v. Bonton, 7 A.D.3d 634, 775 N.Y.S.2d 901 ), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered April 11, 2000.
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 ).
DILLON, J.P., LEVENTHAL, AUSTIN and LaSALLE, JJ., concur.