People v Ackridge
2008 NY Slip Op 01364 [48 AD3d 588]
February 13, 2008
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, April 16, 2008


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Ronald Ackridge, Appellant.

—[*1] Ronald Ackridge, Valhalla, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Janet DiFiore, District Attorney, White Plains, N.Y. (Lois Cullen Valerio of counsel), for respondent.

Joseph A. Vita, Port Chester, N.Y., 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 October 11, 2005 (People v Ackridge, 22 AD3d 593 [2005]), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County, rendered October 8, 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]). Prudenti, P.J., Spolzino, Fisher and Lifson, JJ., concur.