People v Hobson (2011 NY Slip Op 00531)

People v Hobson

2011 NY Slip Op 00531 [80 AD3d 776]

January 25, 2011

Appellate Division, Second Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

As corrected through Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Steven Hobson, Appellant.

—[*1] Salvatore C. Adamo, New York, N.Y., for appellant.

Thomas J. Spota, District Attorney, Riverhead, N.Y. (Rosalind C. Gray 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 January 22, 2008 (People v Hobson, 47 AD3d 840 [2008]), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered August 4, 2005.

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., Skelos, Florio and Dickerson, JJ., concur.