Opinion
May 8, 2000.
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 26, 1999 (People v. Castillo, 260 A.D.2d 643), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County, rendered April 4, 1997.
Jose Ramon Castillo, Coxsackie, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Jeanine Pirro, District Attorney, White Plains, N.Y. (Laurie Sapakoff and Richard Longworth Hecht of counsel), for respondent.
DAVID S. RITTER, J.P., MYRIAM J. ALTMAN, GLORIA GOLDSTEIN, LEO F. McGINITY, 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).
RITTER, J.P., ALTMAN, GOLDSTEIN and McGINITY, JJ., concur.