Opinion
02-08-2017
The PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Elie GRANGER, appellant.
Elie Granger, Attica, N.Y., appellant pro se. Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, Ellen C. Abbot, and Merri Turk Lasky of counsel), for respondent. Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Steven R. Bernard of counsel), former appellate counsel.
Elie Granger, Attica, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, Ellen C. Abbot, and Merri Turk Lasky of counsel), for respondent.
Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Steven R. Bernard 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 November 26, 2014 (People v. Granger, 122 A.D.3d 940, 997 N.Y.S.2d 466 ), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered August 9, 2011.
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, MILLER and DUFFY, JJ., concur.