People v Devaughn (2026 NY Slip Op 00258)
People v Devaughn
2026 NY Slip Op 00258 [245 AD3d 824]
January 21, 2026
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 11, 2026


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Alex Devaughn, Appellant.

Alex Devaughn, Dannemora, NY, appellant pro se.

Melinda Katz, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (Johnnette Traill and William H. Branigan of counsel; Jonathan E. Maseng on the memorandum), 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 May 31, 2011 (People v Devaughn, 84 AD3d 1394 [2011]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered September 9, 2004.

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]). Duffy, J.P., Wooten, Landicino and Quirk, JJ., concur.