People v Williams, 2019 NY Slip Op 01108 [169 AD3d 835]

February 13, 2019

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

James Williams, Also Known as John Covington, Appellant.

James Williams, also known as John Covington, Wallkill, NY, appellant pro se.

Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Keith Dolan 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 26, 1987 ( People v Williams , 133 AD2d 871 [1987]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered March 4, 1983.

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]). Scheinkman, P.J., Leventhal, Connolly and Brathwaite Nelson, JJ., concur..