People v Tavarez

People v Tavarez 2010 NY Slip Op 04824 [74 AD3d 845] June 1, 2010 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Teofilo Tavarez, Appellant.

—[*1] Teofilo Tavarez, Woodbourne, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Janet DiFiore, District Attorney, White Plains, N.Y. (Lois Cullen Valerio and Richard Longworth Hecht of counsel), 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 November 6, 2000 (People v Tavarez, 277 AD2d 260 [2000]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County, rendered April 6, 1998.

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]). Prudenti, P.J., Mastro, Rivera and Miller, JJ., concur.