People v Collier
2008 NY Slip Op 05091 [52 AD3d 526]
June 3, 2008
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 13, 2008


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Maurice Collier, Appellant.

[*1] Maurice Collier, Stormville, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Jeanette Lifschitz, and Jennifer Etkin of counsel), for respondent.

Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Sarah J. Berger 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 December 12, 2006 (People v Collier, 35 AD3d 628 [2006]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered August 2, 2004.

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., Ritter, Santucci and Miller, JJ., concur.