People v Simpson, 2019 NY Slip Op 05798 [174 AD3d 825]

July 24, 2019

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Cedric N. Simpson, Appellant.

Cedric Simpson, named herein as Cedric N. Simpson, Dannemora, NY, appellant pro se.

John M. Ryan, Acting District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano and Jonathan K. Yi of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Benjamin S. Litman 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 7, 2017 ( People v Simpson , 151 AD3d 762 [2017]), determining an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered February 3, 2015.

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]). Balkin, J.P., Leventhal, Hinds-Radix and Barros, JJ., concur..