| People v Backman |
| 2007 NY Slip Op 04302 [40 AD3d 870] |
| May 15, 2007 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Prince Backman, Appellant. |
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Janet DiFiore, District Attorney, White Plains, N.Y. (Jennifer Spencer and Richard Longworth Hecht 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 15, 1999 (People v Backman, 266 AD2d 399 [1999]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County, rendered November 18, 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 Santucci, JJ., concur.