People v Ames

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People v Ames 2013 NY Slip Op 05221 Decided on July 10, 2013 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law ยง 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on July 10, 2013
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKAPPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
MARK C. DILLON, J.P.
THOMAS A. DICKERSON
L. PRISCILLA HALL
SANDRA L. SGROI, JJ.
2010-01761
(Ind. No. 3125-08)

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

v

Michael Ames, appellant.




Michael Ames, Sonyea, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Thomas J. Spota, District Attorney, Riverhead, N.Y. (Anne E.
Oh of counsel), for respondent.
Robert C. Mitchell, Riverhead, N.Y. (Louis E. Mazzola 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 June 13, 2012
(People v Ames, 96 AD3d 867), affirming a judgment of the
County Court, Suffolk County, rendered


DECISION & ORDER
January 25, 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).
DILLON, J.P., DICKERSON, HALL and SGROI, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court

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