People v Patel, 2016 NY Slip Op 05723 [142 AD3d 511]

August 3, 2016

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Vinod Patel, Appellant.

Vinod Patel, Woodbourne, NY, appellant pro se.

Madeline Singas, District Attorney, Mineola, NY (Tammy J. Smiley and Donald Berk of counsel), for respondent.

Mitchell Dranow, Sea Cliff, NY, 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 15, 2010 ( People v Patel , 74 AD3d 1098 [2010]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, rendered January 11, 2007.

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., Chambers, Dickerson and Hall, JJ., concur..