Opinion
12-21-2016
The PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Frank PRUITT, appellant.
Frank Pruitt, Attica, N.Y., appellant pro se. Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, and Merri Turk Lasky of counsel), for respondent.
Frank Pruitt, Attica, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, and Merri Turk Lasky 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 February 1, 1993 (People v. Pruitt, 190 A.D.2d 692, 593 N.Y.S.2d 274 ), 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 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., RIVERA, LEVENTHAL and DUFFY, JJ., concur.