People v Torres

People v Torres 2012 NY Slip Op 08560 Decided on December 12, 2012 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on December 12, 2012
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKAPPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
PETER B. SKELOS, J.P.
RUTH C. BALKIN
CHERYL E. CHAMBERS
ROBERT J. MILLER, JJ.
2002-11006
(Ind. No. 2087/01)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,

v

Jamel Torres, appellant.




Jamel Torres, Attica, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Kathleen M. Rice, District Attorney, Mineola, N.Y. (Andrea
M. DiGregorio and Douglas Noll of
counsel), for respondent.
Leon H. Tracy, Jericho, N.Y., former appellate counsel.


DECISION & ORDER

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 15, 2004 (People v Torres, 12 AD3d 539), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County, rendered November 20, 2002.

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; People v Stultz, 2 NY3d 277).
SKELOS, J.P., BALKIN, CHAMBERS and MILLER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court