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People v Desjardins, 2020 NY Slip Op 04852 [186 AD3d 1241]

September 2, 2020

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Jocelyn Desjardins, Appellant.

Jocelyn Desjardins, Auburn NY, appellant pro se.

Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Keith Dolan of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Joshua M. Levine 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 January 22, 2014 ( People v Desjardins , 113 AD3d 787 [2014]), determining an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered December 18, 2009.

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]). Dillon, J.P., Austin, Brathwaite Nelson and Iannacci, JJ., concur..