People v Otigho
2014 NY Slip Op 02459 [116 AD3d 794]
April 9, 2014
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 28, 2014


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Christopher Otigho, Appellant. (Matter No. 1.) The People of the State of New York, Plaintiff, v Christopher Otigho, Defendant. (Matter No. 2.)

—[*1] Christopher Otigho, Pine City, N.Y., appellant pro se in matter No. 1 and defendant pro se in matter No. 2.

Kenneth P. Thompson, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Rhea A. Grob of counsel), for respondent in matter No. 1 and plaintiff in matter No. 2.

Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Dina Zloczower of counsel), former appellate counsel in matter No. 1.

Application by Christopher Otigho for a writ of error coram nobis on the ground of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel in connection with two judgments of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered March 2, 2011, and April 18, 2011, respectively.

Ordered that the application is denied without prejudice to seeking any appropriate relief pursuant to People v Syville (15 NY3d 391 [2010]).

Christopher Otigho 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., Chambers, Lott and Miller, JJ., concur.