People v Bess
2026 NY Slip Op 03318 [249 AD3d 1196]
May 27, 2026
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law ยง 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, July 8, 2026
The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Curtis Bess, Appellant.
May 27, 2026
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Curtis Bess, Ossining, NY, appellant pro se.
Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Jean M. Joyce of counsel), for respondent.
Patricia Pazner, New York, NY (Denise A. Corsi 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 September 21, 2016 (People v Bess, 142 AD3d 1098 [2016]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered May 22, 2013.
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., Chambers, Dowling and Warhit, JJ., concur.