People v Watson, 2018 NY Slip Op 00446 [157 AD3d 914]

January 24, 2018

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Earl Watson, Appellant.

Earl Watson, Auburn, NY, appellant pro se.

Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Thomas M. Ross, and Terrence F. Heller of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, 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 October 15, 2014 ( People v Watson , 121 AD3d 921 [2014]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered July 30, 2012.

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 US 745 [1983]; People v Stultz , 2 NY3d 277 [2004]). Leventhal, J.P., Cohen, Hinds-Radix and LaSalle, JJ., concur..