People v Walker
2012 NY Slip Op 02901 [94 AD3d 1025]
April 17, 2012
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 23, 2012


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Thomas Walker, Appellant.

[*1] Thomas Walker, Ossining, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Thomas J. Spota, District Attorney, Riverhead, N.Y. (Edward Bannan of counsel), for respondent.

Robert C. Mitchell, Riverhead, N.Y. (Kirk R. Brandt of counsel), former appellate counsel.

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 3, 2011 (People v Walker, 84 AD3d 842 [2011]), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered June 18, 2009.

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., Balkin, Leventhal and Belen, JJ., concur.