Opinion
11-09-2016
The PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Kwame SCOTT, appellant.
Kwame Scott, Stormville, NY, appellant pro se. Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Ruth E. Ross of counsel), for respondent. Deron Castro, Forest Hills, NY, former appellate counsel. Patrick Michael Megaro, Uniondale, NY, former appellate counsel.
Kwame Scott, Stormville, NY, appellant pro se.
Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Ruth E. Ross of counsel), for respondent.
Deron Castro, Forest Hills, NY, former appellate counsel.
Patrick Michael Megaro, Uniondale, NY, 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 February 16, 2010 (People v. Scott, 70 A.D.3d 977, 897 N.Y.S.2d 138 ), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered October 30, 2007.
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 ).
ENG, P.J., AUSTIN, ROMAN and COHEN, JJ., concur.