People v Richards, 2016 NY Slip Op 06237 [142 AD3d 1187]

September 28, 2016

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Justo Richards, Appellant.

Justo Richards, Attica, NY, appellant pro se.

Kenneth P. Thompson, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Shalom J. Twersky of counsel), for respondent.

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 3, 1986 ( People v Richards , 118 AD2d 604 [1986]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered November 20, 1981.

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., Hinds-Radix, Maltese and Duffy, JJ., concur..