People v Patel, 2020 NY Slip Op 00618 [179 AD3d 1097]

January 29, 2020

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Amit Patel, Appellant.

Amit Patel, Coxsackie, NY, appellant pro se.

Melinda Katz, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, Ellen C. Abbot, and John F. McGoldrick of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Kendra L. Hutchinson 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 February 20, 2019 ( People v Patel , 169 AD3d 934 [2019]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered October 24, 2014.

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]). Scheinkman, P.J., Dillon, LaSalle and Brathwaite Nelson, JJ., concur..