People v Lopez
2007 NY Slip Op 00548 [36 AD3d 830]
January 23, 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
Steve Lopez, Appellant.

—[*1] Steve Lopez, Malone, N.Y., appellant pro se. Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Ellen C. Abbot, and Anastasia Spanakos 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 November 1, 1999 (People v Lopez, 266 AD2d 239 [1999]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered February 26, 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]; People v Stultz, 2 NY3d 277 [2004]). Prudenti, P.J., Miller, Schmidt and Krausman, JJ., concur.