People v Bethea
2008 NY Slip Op 06650 [54 AD3d 420]
August 19, 2008
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, September 24, 2008


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Gus Bethea, Appellant.

—[*1] Gus Bethea, Fallsburg, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove, Jodi L. Mandel, and Terry-Ann Llewellyn 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 November 8, 2006 (People v Bethea, 34 AD3d 489 [2006]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered May 12, 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]). Spolzino, J.P., Ritter, Covello and Eng, JJ., concur.