People v Smith
2009 NY Slip Op 06579 [65 AD3d 1169]
September 15, 2009
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, November 4, 2009


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Gerald Smith, Appellant.

[*1] Gerald Smith, Stormville, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Ann Bordley of counsel), for respondent.

David R. Walton, New York, 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 June 17, 1985 (People v Smith, 111 AD2d 883 [1985]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered July 15, 1982.

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]). Mastro, J.P., Rivera, Spolzino and Skelos, JJ., concur.