People v Forde, 2018 NY Slip Op 02336 [160 AD3d 659]

April 4, 2018

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Gideon Forde, Appellant.

Gideon Forde, Auburn, NY, appellant pro se.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, Ellen C. Abbot, and Merri Turk Lasky 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 June 22, 2016 ( People v Forde , 140 AD3d 1085 [2016]), modifying a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered April 30, 2013.

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]). Balkin, J.P., LaSalle, Barros and Connolly, JJ., concur..