People v Almeda, 2017 NY Slip Op 05833 [152 AD3d 783]

July 26, 2017

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Phillip Almeda, Appellant.

Phillip Almeda, Dannemora, NY, appellant pro se.

Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Jodi L. Mandel, and Rebecca L. Visgaitis of counsel), for respondent.

Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, NY (Lisa Napoli 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 August 2, 2004 ( People v Almeda , 10 AD3d 367 [2004]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered April 5, 2001.

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]). Mastro, J.P., Balkin, Roman and LaSalle, JJ., concur..