Opinion
2011-09-27
The PEOPLE, etc., respondent,v.Anthony LaPUMA, appellant.
Anthony LaPuma, Stormville, N.Y, appellant pro se.Janet DiFiore, District Attorney, White Plains, N.Y. (Lois Cullen Valerio and Richard Longworth Hecht of counsel), for respondent.
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 16, 1999 ( People v. LaPuma, 264 A.D.2d 448, 693 N.Y.S.2d 450), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County, rendered February 17, 1998.
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).
PRUDENTI, P.J., RIVERA, SKELOS and DILLON, JJ., concur.