People v Bellamy
2007 NY Slip Op 03150 [39 AD3d 658]
April 10, 2007
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, June 6, 2007


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Kareem Bellamy, Appellant.

—[*1] Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Law Offices of Thomas Hoffman, P.C., Darin P. McAtee, Diane M. Macina, and Craig Batchelor of counsel), for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano and Roni C. Piplani 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 February 2, 1998 (People v Bellamy, 247 AD2d 399 [1998]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered January 16, 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]). Prudenti, P.J., Miller, Schmidt and Florio, JJ., concur.