Opinion
2011-08-9
The PEOPLE, etc., respondent,v.Nakwan NELSON, appellant.
Nakwan Nelson, Ossining, N.Y., appellant pro se.Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove, Jodi L. Mandel, and Terry–Ann Llewellyn of counsel), for respondent.Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (William Kastin of counsel), former appellate counsel.
*747 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 4, 2010 ( People v. Nelson, 73 A.D.3d 811, 899 N.Y.S.2d 659), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered March 7, 2008.
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., BALKIN, LOTT and SGROI, JJ., concur.