People v McClain
2008 NY Slip Op 04112 [50 AD3d 1160]
April 29, 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
Willie McClain, Appellant.

[*1] Willie McClain, Elmira, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Francis D. Phillips II, District Attorney, Goshen, N.Y. (Andrew R. Kass of counsel), for respondent.

John P. Savoca, White Plains, 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 May 16, 2006 (People v McClain, 29 AD3d 824 [2006]), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Orange County, rendered February 28, 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., Rivera, Santucci and Dillon, JJ., concur.