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People v Costello (2017 NY Slip Op 02442)

People v Costello

2017 NY Slip Op 02442

Decided on March 29, 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 March 29, 2017
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.
CHERYL E. CHAMBERS
JEFFREY A. COHEN
BETSY BARROS, JJ.

2013-00768
 (Ind. No. 1657/09)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent, 
vMario Costello, appellant.

Mario Costello, Stormville, NY, appellant pro se.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (Johnnette Traill, Anastasia Spanakos, and Tina Grillo of counsel), for respondent.
Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, NY (Steven R. Bernhard 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 May 13, 2015 (People v Costello, 128 AD3d 848), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered May 30, 2012.
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).
RIVERA, J.P., CHAMBERS, COHEN and BARROS, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court