People v Ackridge
2007 NY Slip Op 00317 [36 AD3d 710]
January 16, 2007
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 14, 2007


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Ronald Ackridge, Appellant.

—[*1] Ronald Ackridge, Rome, N.Y., appellant pro se. Janet DiFiore, District Attorney, White Plains, N.Y. (Jennifer Spencer, Richard Longworth Hecht, and Anthony J. Servino of counsel), for respondent. Lisa H. Blitman, New York, N.Y., 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 July 18, 2006 (People v Ackridge, 31 AD3d 654 [2006]), affirming (1) a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County, rendered April 17, 2003, and (2) an order of the same court dated May 27, 2004.

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]). Prudenti, P.J., Schmidt, Santucci and Covello, JJ., concur.