People v Crouch, 2015 NY Slip Op 04142 [128 AD3d 849]

May 13, 2015

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Darrell Crouch, Also Known as Willie Kearse, Appellant.

Darrell Crouch, also known as Willie Kearse, Napanoch, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Kenneth P. Thompson, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Marie-John Drigo 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 May 27, 1997 ( People v Crouch , 239 AD2d 597 [1997]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered March 23, 1995.

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., Dickerson, Miller and Hinds-Radix, JJ., concur..