Opinion
2013-09-11
The PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Ricardo GUZMAN, appellant.
Ricardo Guzman, Coxsackie, N.Y., appellant pro se. Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and *57Camille O'Hara Gillespie of counsel), for respondent.
Ricardo Guzman, Coxsackie, N.Y., appellant pro se. Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and *57Camille O'Hara Gillespie of counsel), for respondent.
Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Erica Horwitz 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 28, 2004 ( People v. Guzman, 8 A.D.3d 677, 778 N.Y.S.2d 893), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered October 10, 2000.
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 U.S. 745, 103 S.Ct. 3308, 77 L.Ed.2d 987;People v. Stultz, 2 N.Y.3d 277, 778 N.Y.S.2d 431, 810 N.E.2d 883).