People v Thompson (2025 NY Slip Op 04737)
People v Thompson
2025 NY Slip Op 04737 [241 AD3d 842]
August 20, 2025
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, October 8, 2025


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Derrick Thompson, Appellant.

Derrick Thompson, Napanoch, NY, appellant pro se.

Melinda Katz, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (Johnnette Traill, Ellen C. Abbot, and Rebecca Nealon of counsel), for respondent.

Patricia Pazner, New York NY (Kathleen Whooley 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 October 10, 2012 (People v Thompson, 99 AD3d 819 [2012]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered May 19, 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]). Barros, J.P., Chambers, Landicino and McCormack, JJ., concur.