People v Hawkins (2003 NY Slip Op 18485)

People v Hawkins

2003 NY Slip Op 18485 [1 AD3d 529]

November 17, 2003

Appellate Division, Second Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

As corrected through Wednesday, January 28, 2004

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Murray Hawkins, Appellant.

—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 March 23, 1998 (People v Hawkins, 248 AD2d 634 [1998]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered March 5, 1997.

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]). Prudenti, P.J., Santucci, Friedmann and McGinity, JJ., concur.