People v Rivera, 2017 NY Slip Op 06089 [153 AD3d 641]

August 9, 2017

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Alex Rivera, Appellant.

Alex Rivera, Comstock, NY, appellant pro se.

Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Diane R. Eisner of counsel), for respondent.

Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, NY (Lisa Napoli 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 July 1, 2015 ( People v Rivera , 130 AD3d 655 [2015]), determining an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered August 9, 2011.

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]). Dillon, J.P., Chambers, Barros and Brathwaite Nelson, JJ., concur..