People v Lawson, 2015 NY Slip Op 06258 [130 AD3d 943]

July 22, 2015

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Kendall Lawson, Appellant.

Kendall Lawson, Elmira, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Janet DiFiore, District Attorney, White Plains, N.Y. (Laurie G. Sapakoff of counsel), for respondent.

Dennis M. Walsh, New York, N.Y., 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 May 1, 2007 ( People v Lawson , 40 AD3d 657 [2007]), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County, rendered December 8, 2005.

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]). Skelos, J.P., Leventhal, Sgroi and Maltese, JJ., concur..