

People v Watson (2018 NY Slip Op 00446)





People v Watson


2018 NY Slip Op 00446


Decided on January 24, 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 January 24, 2018
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

JOHN M. LEVENTHAL, J.P.
JEFFREY A. COHEN
SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX
HECTOR D. LASALLE, JJ.


2012-07707
 (Ind. No. 4828/11)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,
vEarl Watson, appellant.


Earl Watson, Auburn, NY, appellant pro se.
Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Thomas M. Ross, and Terrence F. Heller of counsel), for respondent.
Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY, 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 15, 2014 (People v Watson, 121 AD3d 921), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered July 30, 2012.
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).
LEVENTHAL, J.P., COHEN, HINDS-RADIX and LASALLE, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court


