People v. Richards , 152 A.D.3d 547 ( 2017 )

People v Richards (2017 NY Slip Op 05465)

People v Richards

2017 NY Slip Op 05465

Decided on July 5, 2017

Appellate Division, Second Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

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Decided on July 5, 2017 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.
JOHN M. LEVENTHAL
LEONARD B. AUSTIN
LINDA CHRISTOPHER, JJ.

2016-09853
(Ind. No. 839/79)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,

v

Justo Richards, appellant.

Justo Richards, Attica, NY, appellant pro se.

Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Sholom J. Twersky 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 March 3, 1986 (People v Richards, 118 AD2d 604), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered November 20, 1981.

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).

RIVERA, J.P., LEVENTHAL, AUSTIN and CHRISTOPHER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court