People v. Zappulla

People v Zappulla (2014 NY Slip Op 05663)

People v Zappulla

2014 NY Slip Op 05663

Decided on August 6, 2014

Appellate Division, Second Department

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

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Decided on August 6, 2014SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKAppellate Division, Second Judicial Department
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.
L. PRISCILLA HALL
SHERI S. ROMAN
ROBERT J. MILLER, JJ.

2008-07049
(Ind. No. 2948/98)

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

v

Guy Zappulla, appellant.

Guy Zappulla, Dannemora, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Kenneth P. Thompson, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Camille O'Hara Gillespie of counsel), for respondent.

Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Paul Skip Laisure 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 February 13, 2013 (People v Zappulla, 103 AD3d 759), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered July 21, 2008.

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., HALL, ROMAN and MILLER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court