People v Curenton

People v Curenton 2009 NY Slip Op 07434 [66 AD3d 796] October 13, 2009 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, December 9, 2009

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
John T. Curenton, Appellant.

—[*1] John T. Curenton, Attica, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Thomas J. Spota, District Attorney, Riverhead, N.Y. (Michael Blakey of counsel), for respondent.

Laura Solinger, Southold, N.Y., 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 November 10, 2003 (People v Curenton, 1 AD3d 445 [2003]), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered December 3, 2001.

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]). Skelos, J.P., Fisher, Santucci and Chambers, JJ., concur.