Opinion
1991-02504
12-21-2016
The People of the State of New York, respondent, v. Frank Pruitt, appellant.
Frank Pruitt, Attica, NY, appellant pro se. Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, and Merri Turk Lasky of counsel), for respondent.
REINALDO E. RIVERA JOHN M. LEVENTHAL COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ. (Ind. No. 3169/89)
Frank Pruitt, Attica, NY, appellant pro se.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, and Merri Turk Lasky of counsel), for respondent.
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 February 1, 1993 (People v Pruitt, 190 AD2d 692 ), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered February 21, 1991.
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 US 745; People v Stultz, 2 NY3d 277).
MASTRO, J.P., RIVERA, LEVENTHAL and DUFFY, JJ., concur. ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court