People v Placek, 2020 NY Slip Op 03927 [185 AD3d 840]

July 15, 2020

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Steven H. Placek, Appellant.

Steven H. Placek, Stormville, NY, appellant pro se.

Melinda Katz, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (Johnnette Traill, Nancy Fitzpatrick Talcott, and Russell Shapiro of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Cynthia Colt 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 June 5, 2019 ( People v Placek , 173 AD3d 774 [2019]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered December 1, 2016.

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]). Rivera, J.P., Roman, Hinds-Radix and LaSalle, JJ., concur..