People v Graves, 2018 NY Slip Op 06261 [164 AD3d 1469]

September 26, 2018

Appellate Division, Second Department

[*1]

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Eugene Graves, Appellant.

Eugene Graves, Ossining, NY, appellant pro se.

Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Sholom J. Twersky, and Arieh Schulman of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (David P. Greenberg 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 August 10, 2016 ( People v Graves , 142 AD3d 559 [2016]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered December 19, 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]). Mastro, J.P., Rivera, Sgroi and Maltese, JJ., concur..