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People v Smith (2015 NY Slip Op 04158)

People v Smith

2015 NY Slip Op 04158

Decided on May 13, 2015

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 May 13, 2015
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

PETER B. SKELOS, J.P.
THOMAS A. DICKERSON
ROBERT J. MILLER
SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX, JJ.

1998-04106
 (Ind. No. 1522/97)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent, 
vTerry Smith, appellant.

Terry Smith, Woodbourne, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Thomas J. Spota, District Attorney, Riverhead, N.Y. (Glenn Green of counsel), for respondent.
Robert C. Mitchell, Riverhead, N.Y. (James H. Miller III 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 July 2, 2001 (People v Smith, 285 AD2d 480), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered April 8, 1998.
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 U.S. 745; People v Stultz, 2 NY3d 277).
SKELOS, J.P., DICKERSON, MILLER and HINDS-RADIX, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court