People v Thompson
2007 NY Slip Op 04673 [40 AD3d 1134]
May 29, 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
Rahmel Thompson, Appellant.

—[*1] Rahmel Thompson, Stormville, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Jeanette Lifschitz, and Rona I. Kugler 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 May 23, 2006 (People v Thompson, 29 AD3d 923 [2006]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered May 22, 2003.

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]). Miller, J.P., Ritter, Skelos and Lifson, JJ., concur.