Opinion
1999-05127
November 12, 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 April 9, 2001 (People v. Johnson, 282 A.D.2d 548), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered May 17, 1999.
Stephen Johnson, Stormville, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Nicoletta J. Caferri, and Ushir Pandit of counsel), for respondent.
Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Barbara Lerner of counsel), former appellate counsel.
Before: SANDRA J. FEUERSTEIN, J.P., NANCY E. SMITH, GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, WILLIAM D. FRIEDMANN, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
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).
FEUERSTEIN, J.P., SMITH, KRAUSMAN and FRIEDMANN, JJ., concur.