People v Folkes
2008 NY Slip Op 07680 [55 AD3d 623]
October 7, 2008
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 10, 2008


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Theodore Folkes, Also Known as Theodore Blackstock, Appellant.

[*1] Theodore Folkes, named herein as Theodore Folkes, also known as Theodore Blackstock, Stormville, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Thomas M. Ross of counsel), for respondent.

Application by the appellant for a writ of error coram nobis to vacate a decision and order of this Court dated September 11, 2007 (People v Folkes, 43 AD3d 956 [2007]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered April 4, 2000, on the ground of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel.

Ordered that the appellant is granted leave to serve and file a brief on the issue of whether appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to raise the issue that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to preserve the argument regarding legal sufficiency; and it is further,

Ordered that pursuant to County Law § 722, the following named attorney is assigned as counsel to prosecute the application: David R. Walton, 22 Broadway, Suite 1901, New York, N.Y., 10007; and it is further,

Ordered that assigned counsel shall prosecute the application expeditiously in accordance with this Court's rules (see 22 NYCRR 670.1 et seq.), and written directions; and it is further, [*2]

Ordered that the application is held in abeyance in the interim. Spolzino, J.P., Skelos, Lifson and Balkin, JJ., concur.