People v Philips, 2020 NY Slip Op 02480 [182 AD3d 611]

April 29, 2020

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

George Philips, Appellant.

Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & LoTurco, Garden City, NY (Donna Aldea and Danielle Muscatello of counsel), for appellant.

Melinda Katz, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (Johnnette Traill and Roni C. Piplani 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 June 20, 2006 ( People v Philips , 30 AD3d 618 [2006]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered January 25, 2000.

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]). Rivera, J.P., Dillon, Christopher and Wooten, JJ., concur..