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People v McGriff (2015 NY Slip Op 01291)

People v McGriff

2015 NY Slip Op 01291

Decided on February 11, 2015

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 February 11, 2015
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

MARK C. DILLON, J.P.
THOMAS A. DICKERSON
CHERYL E. CHAMBERS
COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ.

1997-09797
 (Ind. No. 3456/96)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,
vDewitt McGriff, appellant.

Dewitt McGriff, Fallsburg, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, and Laura T. Ross of counsel), for respondent.
Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y., 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 26, 1998 (People v McGriff, 254 AD2d 503), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered October 8, 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).
DILLON, J.P., DICKERSON, CHAMBERS and DUFFY, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court