People v Vias, 2020 NY Slip Op 05950 [187 AD3d 1070]

October 21, 2020

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Eduardo Vias, Appellant.

Eduardo Vias, Dannemora, NY, appellant pro se.

Michael E. McMahon, District Attorney, Staten Island, NY (Morrie I. Kleinbart of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Tammy E. Linn 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 December 19, 2018 ( People v Vias , 167 AD3d 950 [2018]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County, rendered May 8, 2014.

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., Leventhal, Hinds-Radix and Brathwaite Nelson, JJ., concur..