People v Bell
2011 NY Slip Op 09662 [90 AD3d 1065]
December 27, 2011
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 1, 2012


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Leon Bell, Appellant.

—[*1] Leon Bell, Auburn, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Camille O'Hara Gillespie 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 December 9, 1996 (People v Bell, 234 AD2d 378 [1996]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered December 18, 1991.

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, A.P.J., Rivera, Dillon and Angiolillo, JJ., concur.