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People v Azaz (2017 NY Slip Op 01376)

People v Azaz

2017 NY Slip Op 01376

Decided on February 22, 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 February 22, 2017
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.
RUTH C. BALKIN
LEONARD B. AUSTIN
SHERI S. ROMAN, JJ.

2004-09768
 (Ind. No. 7571/01)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,
vNagmeldeen Azaz, appellant.

Nagmeldeen Azaz, Dannemora, NY, appellant pro se.
Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Ruth E. Ross of counsel), for respondent.
Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, NY, 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 12, 2007 (People v Azaz, 41 AD3d 610), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered October 12, 2004.
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., BALKIN, AUSTIN and ROMAN, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court