People v Cephus

People v Cephus 2007 NY Slip Op 03153 [39 AD3d 661] April 10, 2007 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, June 6, 2007

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Kim Cephus, Appellant.

—[*1] Kim Cephus, Bedford Hills, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Tziyonah M. Langsam 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 October 12, 2004 (People v Cephus, 11 AD3d 553 [2004]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered June 17, 2002.

Ordered that the application is denied.

The appellant has failed to establish that she was denied the effective assistance of appellate counsel (see Jones v Barnes, 463 US 745 [1983]; People v Stultz, 2 NY3d 277 [2004]). Miller, J.P., Ritter, Goldstein and Skelos, JJ., concur.