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People v Smith (2023 NY Slip Op 05521)

People v Smith

2023 NY Slip Op 05521

Decided on November 1, 2023

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 November 1, 2023
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

JOSEPH J. MALTESE, J.P.
LINDA CHRISTOPHER
WILLIAM G. FORD
LAURENCE L. LOVE, JJ.

1997-09761
 (Ind. No. 1382/96)

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

Jua Smith, Comstock, NY, appellant pro se.
Raymond A. Tierney, District Attorney, Riverhead, NY (Kim Marie Carson 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 of this Court dated May 3, 1999 (People v Smith, 261 AD2d 423), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered September 10, 1997.
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).
MALTESE, J.P., CHRISTOPHER, FORD and LOVE, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Darrell M. Joseph
Acting Clerk of the Court