People v Belton, 2018 NY Slip Op 06253 [164 AD3d 1464]

September 26, 2018

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

James Belton, Appellant.

James Belton, Stormville, NY, appellant pro se.

Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Camille O’Hara Gillespie, and Michael L. Brenner of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Nao Terai of counsel), 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 12, 2016 ( People v Belton , 143 AD3d 835 [2016]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered September 23, 2014.

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]). Balkin, J.P., Cohen, Brathwaite Nelson and Iannacci, JJ., concur..