People v Avent (2007 NY Slip Op 07001)

People v Avent

2007 NY Slip Op 07001 [43 AD3d 1174]

September 25, 2007

Appellate Division, Second Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

As corrected through Wednesday, November 7, 2007

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Reuben Avent, Appellant.

—[*1] Reuben Avent, Dannemora, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Michael E. Bongiorno, District Attorney, New City, N.Y. (Vered Adoni of counsel), for respondent.

Lewis & Lefcourt, Blauvelt, N.Y. (Arleen Lewis 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 2, 2006 (People v Avent, 29 AD3d 601 [2006]), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Rockland County, rendered October 23, 2001.

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., Santucci, Krausman and Dillon, JJ., concur.