People v Dupree, 2020 NY Slip Op 03801 [185 AD3d 719]

July 8, 2020

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Reginald Dupree, Appellant.

Reginald Dupree, Stormville, NY, appellant pro se.

Melinda Katz, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (Johnnette Traill, Joseph N. Ferdenzi, and Josette Simmons McGhee of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, 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 March 13, 2019 ( People v Dupree , 170 AD3d 881 [2019]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered October 5, 2015.

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]). Leventhal, J.P., Roman, Connolly and Brathwaite Nelson, JJ., concur..