People v Johnson

People v Johnson 2009 NY Slip Op 09043 [68 AD3d 784] December 1, 2009 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
David Johnson, Also Known as Tito Greene, Appellant.

—[*1] David Johnson, also known as Tito Greene, Stormville, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Jeanette Lifschitz, and Karen Wigle Weiss of counsel), for respondent.

Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Steven R. Bernhard 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 24, 2006 (People v Johnson, 33 AD3d 939 [2006]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered January 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 [1983]; People v Stultz, 2 NY3d 277 [2004]). Prudenti, P.J., Mastro, Skelos and Florio, JJ., concur.