People v Thompson, 2015 NY Slip Op 07521 [132 AD3d 784]

October 14, 2015

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Benjamin E. Thompson, Appellant.

Benjamin E. Thompson, Stormville, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Thomas J. Spota, District Attorney, Riverhead, N.Y. (Edward A. Bannan 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 October 23, 2013 ( People v Thompson , 110 AD3d 1014 [2013]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, rendered October 1, 2010.

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]). Mastro, J.P., Leventhal, Chambers and Maltese, JJ., concur..