Opinion
2018–14757 Ind.No. 3536/84
04-03-2019
The PEOPLE, etc., Respondent, v. Ernest HICKS, also known as Taylor Hicks, Appellant.
Justin Bonus, Forest Hills, NY, for appellant, and appellant pro se. Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove, Jodi L. Mandel, and Arieh Schulman of counsel), for respondent.
Justin Bonus, Forest Hills, NY, for appellant, and appellant pro se.
Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove, Jodi L. Mandel, and Arieh Schulman of counsel), for respondent.
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P. JEFFREY A. COHEN JOSEPH J. MALTESE VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ.
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 March 14, 1988 ( People v. Hicks, 138 A.D.2d 519, 526 N.Y.S.2d 127 ), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered June 25, 1985.
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 ).
RIVERA, J.P., COHEN, MALTESE and BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ., concur.