Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1998

People v. Saunders

People v. Saunders
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided May 26, 1998
250 A.D.2d 867; 672 N.Y.S.2d 801; 1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5960
People v. Saunders

Opinion of the Court

—Application by the appellant for (1) a writ of error coram nobis to vácate, on the ground of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel, a decision and order of this Court dated October 16, 1995 (People v Saunders, 220 AD2d 629), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered November 15, 1993, and (2) poor person relief.

Ordered that the branch of the application which is for poor *868person relief is denied as academic, as the appellant was granted poor person relief by decision and order on motion of this Court dated March 24, 1994; and it is further,

Ordered that the branch of the application which is for a writ of error coram nobis 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). O’Brien, J. P., Copertino, Sullivan and Krausman, JJ., concur.

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