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People v Cummings (2014 NY Slip Op 05799)
People v Cummings
2014 NY Slip Op 05799
Decided on August 13, 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 August 13, 2014SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKAppellate Division, Second Judicial DepartmentPETER B. SKELOS, J.P.
THOMAS A. DICKERSON
JEFFREY A. COHEN
COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ.

1995-00450
 (Ind. No. 9400/94)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent, 
vMichael Cummings, appellant.
Lisa Lewis, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant.
Kenneth P. Thompson, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Jodi L. Mandel of counsel), for respondent.
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 on motion of this Court dated May 13, 1996, which granted the motion of assigned counsel for leave to withdraw an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered January 3, 1995, and to be relieved of the assignment to prosecute that appeal.
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, COHEN and DUFFY, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court