Opinion
2011-10-11
The PEOPLE, etc., respondent,v.Dawson SHARPE, appellant.
Dawson Sharpe, Cape Vincent, N.Y., appellant pro se.Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Jeanette Lifschitz, and Karen Wigle Weiss 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 October 15, 1990 ( People v. Sharpe, 166 A.D.2d 620, 560 N.Y.S.2d 905), reversing a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered October 30, 1986, and affirming two judgments of the same court rendered July 24, 1987.
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).
PRUDENTI, P.J., MASTRO, RIVERA and SKELOS, JJ., concur.