People v Sharpe

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People v Sharpe 2010 NY Slip Op 09155 [79 AD3d 773] December 7, 2010 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, February 16, 2011

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Dawson Sharpe, Appellant.

—[*1] Dawson Sharpe, Cape Vincent, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Jeanette Lifschitz, and Karen Wigle Weiss 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 October 15, 1990 (People v Sharpe, 166 AD2d 620 [1990]), reversing a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered October 30, 1986, and affirming two judgments of the same court rendered July 24, 1987.

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 Skelos, JJ., concur.

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