People v Soto
2011 NY Slip Op 08384 [89 AD3d 963]
November 15, 2011
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, January 4th, 2012


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

—[*1] Steven Soto, Stormville, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Francis D. Phillips II, District Attorney, Goshen, N.Y. (Lauren E. Grasso 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 June 28, 2004 (People v Soto, 8 AD3d 683 [2004]), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Orange County, rendered October 24, 2001.

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, Skelos and Florio, JJ., concur.