People v Toppin
2007 NY Slip Op 04332 [40 AD3d 892]
May 15, 2007
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, July 11, 2007


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Rudy Toppin, Appellant.

[*1] Rudy Toppin, Attica, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Shulamit Rosenblum of counsel), for respondent.

Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (David P. Greenberg of counsel), 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 February 14, 2006 (People v Toppin, 26 AD3d 398 [2006]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered June 15, 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., Crane, Goldstein and Covello, JJ., concur.