People v Foust

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People v Foust 2007 NY Slip Op 03160 [39 AD3d 666] 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
Richard Foust, Also Known as Injah Tafari, Appellant.

—[*1] Richard Foust, a/k/a Injah Tafari, Romulus, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Thomas M. Ross 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 February 3, 1986 (People v Foust, 117 AD2d 616 [1986]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered October 17, 1983.

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., Miller, Crane and Mastro, JJ., concur.

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