Opinion
1998-06340
February 14, 2002.
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 January 24, 2000 (People v. Thomas, 268 A.D.2d 540), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County, rendered May 29, 1998.
Albert Thomas, Attica, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Jeanine Pirro, District Attorney, White Plains, N.Y. (Christine E. Cervasio and Richard Longworth Hecht of counsel), for respondent.
Before: DAVID S. RITTER, J.P., SANDRA J. FEUERSTEIN, WILLIAM D. FRIEDMANN, ROBERT W. SCHMIDT, JJ.
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).
RITTER, J.P., FEUERSTEIN, FRIEDMANN and SCHMIDT, JJ., concur.