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People v Grasso, 2020 NY Slip Op 00877 [180 AD3d 705]

February 5, 2020

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Luigi Grasso, Also Known as Ronald Petrino, Also Known as Renato Santini, Appellant.

Luigi Grasso, Romulus, NY, appellant pro se.

Michael E. McMahon, District Attorney, Staten Island, NY (Anne Grady of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Patricia Pazner 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 July 25, 2018 ( People v Grasso , 163 AD3d 991 [2018]), determining an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County, rendered March 26, 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]). Mastro, J.P., Roman, Barros and Iannacci, JJ., concur..