People v Morales
2011 NY Slip Op 04276 [84 AD3d 1118]
May 17, 2011
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, July 6, 2011


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Roberto Morales, Appellant.

—[*1] Franzblau Dratch, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Stephen N. Dratch of counsel), for appellant.

Thomas P. Zugibe, District Attorney, New City, N.Y. (Itamar J. Yeger 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 May 28, 1996 (People v Morales, 227 AD2d 648 [1996]), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Rockland County, rendered September 7, 1994.

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.