People v Hazare

People v Hazare 2017 NY Slip Op 08849 Decided on December 20, 2017 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 December 20, 2017 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.
LEONARD B. AUSTIN
SANDRA SGROI
LINDA CHRISTOPHER, JJ.
2010-03829
(Ind. No. 638/08)

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

v

Anand Hazare, appellant.

Anand Hazare, Dannemora, NY, appellant pro se.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, and Danielle S. Fenn of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Joshua M. Levine 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 April 17, 2013 (People v Hazare, 105 AD3d 975), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered March 31, 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).

MASTRO, J.P., AUSTIN, SGROI and CHRISTOPHER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court