People v Watts

People v Watts 2013 NY Slip Op 07206 Decided on November 6, 2013 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on November 6, 2013
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKAPPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
RANDALL T. ENG, P.J.
REINALDO E. RIVERA
THOMAS A. DICKERSON
SHERI S. ROMAN, JJ.
2010-00395
(Ind. No. 5001/08)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,

v

Kevin Watts, appellant.




Kevin Watts, Malone, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard
Joblove, Jodi L. Mandel, and
Gamaliel Marrero of counsel), for
respondent.
Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Winston McIntosh of
counsel), former appellate counsel.


DECISION & ORDER

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 15, 2011 (People v Watts, 89 AD3d 965), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered January 5, 2010.

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, People v Stultz, 2 NY3d 277).
ENG, P.J., RIVERA, DICKERSON and ROMAN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court