People v Ortiz

People v Ortiz 2010 NY Slip Op 07969 [78 AD3d 737] November 3, 2010 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Paul Ortiz, Appellant.

—[*1] Paul Ortiz, Attica, N.Y., appellant pro se. Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Morgan Dennehy 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 January 12, 1998 (People v Ortiz, 246 AD2d 559 [1998]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered August 1, 1996.

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, Rivera and Skelos, JJ., concur.