People v Thompson

People v Thompson 2012 NY Slip Op 08166 Decided on November 28, 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 November 28, 2012
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKAPPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
RANDALL T. ENG, P.J.
WILLIAM F. MASTRO
REINALDO E. RIVERA
PETER B. SKELOS, JJ.
2003-05153
(Ind. No. 328/02)

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

v

Rahmel Thompson, appellant.




Rahmel Thompson, Stormville, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y.
(John M. Castellano, Jeanette
Lifschitz, and Rona I. Kugler of counsel),
for respondent.
Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (David P. Greenberg of
counsel), 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 May 23, 2006 (People v Thompson, 29 AD3d 923), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered May 22, 2003.

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).
ENG, P.J., MASTRO, RIVERA and SKELOS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court