People v Velez
2010 NY Slip Op 00291 [69 AD3d 768]
January 12, 2010
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 10, 2010


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Ruben Velez, Appellant.

[*1] Ruben Velez, Attica, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove, Morgan Dennehy, and Marie-Claude P. Wrenn-Myers of counsel), for respondent.

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 October 13, 1998 (People v Velez, 254 AD2d 379 [1998]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered June 9, 1993.

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 Skelos, JJ., concur.