People v Hawkins
2008 NY Slip Op 07149 [54 AD3d 968]
September 23, 2008
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, October 29, 2008


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Cleveland Hawkins, Appellant.

[*1] Cleveland Hawkins, Coxsackie, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Rhea A. Grob of counsel), for respondent.

Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Joshua M. Levine 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 June 19, 2007 (People v Hawkins, 41 AD3d 732 [2007]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered June 17, 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., Santucci, Covello and Carni, JJ., concur.