People v Morgan
2009 NY Slip Op 00712 [59 AD3d 464]
February 3, 2009
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, April 1, 2009


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Richard Morgan, Appellant.

[*1] Richard Morgan, Comstock, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Thomas P. Zugibe, District Attorney, New City, N.Y. (Carrie A. Ciganek of counsel), for respondent.

Arlene Lewis, Blauvelt, 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 February 19, 2008 (People v Morgan, 48 AD3d 703 [2008]), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Rockland County, rendered August 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]). Ritter, J.P., Santucci, Covello and Carni, JJ., concur.