Opinion
2014-04-23
The PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Ramon RODRIGUEZ, appellant.
Ramon Rodriguez, Stormville, N.Y., appellant pro se. Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano and Jill Gross Marks of counsel), for respondent.
Ramon Rodriguez, Stormville, N.Y., appellant pro se. Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano and Jill Gross Marks of counsel), for respondent.
Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Erica Horowitz of counsel), former appellate counsel.
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 June 22, 1998 ( People v. Rodriguez, 251 A.D.2d 603, 673 N.Y.S.2d 940), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered June 25, 1996.
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). BALKIN, J.P., DICKERSON, LEVENTHAL and HINDS–RADIX, JJ., concur.