People v Velez
2006 NY Slip Op 07764 [33 AD3d 944]
October 24, 2006
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 13, 2006


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
George Velez, Appellant.

[*1]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 August 13, 2001 (People v Velez, 286 AD2d 406 [2001]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered May 9, 1996.

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]). Florio, J.P., Schmidt, Adams and Krausman, JJ., concur.