People v Douglas
2008 NY Slip Op 03471 [50 AD3d 919]
April 15, 2008
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, June 18, 2008


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Neal Douglas, Appellant.

—[*1] Estelle Jana Roond, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Jill Gross-Marks, and Ayelet Sela of counsel), for respondent.

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 March 16, 1998 (People v Douglas, 248 AD2d 550 [1998]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered August 1, 1996.

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., Rivera, Spolzino and Ritter, JJ., concur.