People v Ames
2013 NY Slip Op 05221 [108 AD3d 638]
July 10, 2013
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 21, 2013


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Michael Ames, Appellant.

—[*1] Michael Ames, Sonyea, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Thomas J. Spota, District Attorney, Riverhead, N.Y. (Anne E. Oh of counsel), for respondent.

Robert C. Mitchell, Riverhead, N.Y. (Louis E. Mazzola 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 June 13, 2012 (People v Ames, 96 AD3d 867 [2012]), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered January 25, 2010.

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]). Dillon, J.P., Dickerson, Hall and Sgroi, JJ., concur.