People v Hewitt
2007 NY Slip Op 05524 [41 AD3d 733]
June 19, 2007
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 15, 2007


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Fred Hewitt, Appellant.

[*1] Fred Hewitt, Ossining, 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.

Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Erica Horwitz 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 16, 1999 (People v Hewitt, 258 AD2d 597 [1999]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered May 22, 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 Mastro, JJ., concur.