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People v Mercado (2020 NY Slip Op 04185)

People v Mercado

2020 NY Slip Op 04185

Decided on July 22, 2020

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 July 22, 2020
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

MARK C. DILLON, J.P.
JOHN M. LEVENTHAL
JOSEPH J. MALTESE
LINDA CHRISTOPHER, JJ.

2002-11070
 (Ind. No. 01-01584)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,
vOscar Mercado, appellant.

Oscar Mercado, Napanoch, NY, appellant pro se.
Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr., District Attorney, White Plains, NY (Jill Oziemblewski and William C. Milaccio 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 April 19, 2004 (People v Mercado, 6 AD3d 630), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County, rendered October 29, 2002, as amended January 22, 2003.
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).
DILLON, J.P., LEVENTHAL, MALTESE and CHRISTOPHER, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court