People v Johnson, 2018 NY Slip Op 06263 [164 AD3d 1469]

September 26, 2018

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Gregory Johnson, Appellant.

Gregory Johnson, Malone, NY, appellant pro se.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, and Nancy Fitzpatrick Talcott 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 March 14, 2018 ( People v Johnson , 159 AD3d 833 [2018]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered August 1, 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., Leventhal, Chambers and Miller, JJ., concur..