People v Fernandez
2007 NY Slip Op 07007 [43 AD3d 1177]
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
Rafael Fernandez, Appellant.

[*1] Rafael Fernandez, Auburn, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Ellen C. Abbot, and Daniel Bresnahan of counsel), for respondent.

Lynn W. L. Fahey, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (Lisa Napoli 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 June 7, 2004 (People v Fernandez, 8 AD3d 401 [2004]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered August 19, 2002.

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, Spolzino and Krausman, JJ., concur.