People v Pinckney
2009 NY Slip Op 08845 [67 AD3d 1030]
November 24, 2009
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, January 6, 2010


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Comfort Pinckney, Appellant.

—[*1] Comfort Pinckney, Stormville, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (Ushir Pandit of counsel), for respondent.

Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Lisa Napoli 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 March 14, 2006 (People v Pinckney, 27 AD3d 581 [2006]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered July 29, 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]). Prudenti, P.J., Mastro, Rivera and Fisher, JJ., concur.