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Date Created: 2018-09-26 19:28:46.672966+00
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People v Belton (2018 NY Slip Op 06253)

People v Belton

2018 NY Slip Op 06253

Decided on September 26, 2018

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 September 26, 2018
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

RUTH C. BALKIN, J.P.
JEFFREY A. COHEN
VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON
ANGELA G. IANNACCI, JJ.

2014-10258
 (Ind. No. 1456/13)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,
vJames Belton, appellant.

James Belton, Stormville, NY, appellant pro se.
Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Camille O'Hara Gillespie, and Michael L. Brenner of counsel), for respondent.
Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Nao Terai 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 October 12, 2016 (People v Belton, 143 AD3d 835), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered September 23, 2014.
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).
BALKIN, J.P., COHEN, BRATHWAITE NELSON and IANNACCI, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court