People v Means

People v Means 2014 NY Slip Op 02314 Decided on April 2, 2014 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 April 2, 2014
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKAPPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.
JOHN M. LEVENTHAL
SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX
JOSEPH J. MALTESE, JJ.
1997-10403
(Ind. No. 506/96)

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

v

Lafayette Means, appellant.




Lafayette Means, Ossining, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Daniel M. Donovan, Jr., District Attorney, Staten Island, N.Y.
(Morrie I. Kleinbart of counsel), for
respondent.
Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y., 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 June 1, 1999 (People v Means, 262 AD2d 334), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County, rendered October 21, 1997.

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).
RIVERA, J.P., LEVENTHAL, HINDS-RADIX and MALTESE, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court