People v Estela
2009 NY Slip Op 05791 [64 AD3d 614]
July 7, 2009
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, September 2, 2009


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Gilbert Estela, Appellant.

[*1] Paul S. Brenner, New York, N.Y., for appellant.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Jodi L. Mandel of counsel), for respondent.

Application by the appellant for a writ of error coram nobis, in effect, to vacate a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered October 1, 2007, so that he may be resentenced nunc pro tunc and file a notice of appeal, on the ground that his attorney failed to file a notice of appeal.

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]; People v Bachert, 69 NY2d 593 [1987]; People v Montgomery, 24 NY2d 130 [1969]). Prudenti, P.J., Skelos, Dillon and Eng, JJ., concur.