People v Pettus

People v Pettus 2014 NY Slip Op 02619 Decided on April 16, 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 16, 2014
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKAPPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
RUTH C. BALKIN, J.P.
THOMAS A. DICKERSON
JOHN M. LEVENTHAL
SHERI S. ROMAN, JJ.
2003-05512
(Ind. No. 6013/02)

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

v

James Pettus, appellant.




James Pettus, Bronx, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Kenneth P. Thompson, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y.
(Leonard Joblove and Thomas M. Ross of
counsel), for respondent.
Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Warren S. Landau 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 October 31, 2005 (People v Pettus, 22 AD3d 869), determining an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered June 18, 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; People v Stultz, 2 NY3d 277).
BALKIN, J.P., DICKERSON, LEVENTHAL and ROMAN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court