People v Jones, 2017 NY Slip Op 08391 [155 AD3d 1062]

November 29, 2017

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Gary Jones, Appellant.

Gary Jones, Dannemora, NY, appellant pro se.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, Ellen C. Abbot, and Kayonia L. Whetstone of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (William Kastin 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 May 11, 2016 ( People v Jones , 139 AD3d 880 [2016]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered April 25, 2012.

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., Hall, Hinds-Radix and LaSalle, JJ., concur..