

People v Velez-Garriga (2019 NY Slip Op 05801)





People v Velez-Garriga


2019 NY Slip Op 05801


Decided on July 24, 2019


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 July 24, 2019
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

MARK C. DILLON, J.P.
CHERYL E. CHAMBERS
SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX
LINDA CHRISTOPHER, JJ.


2015-07705
 (Ind. No. 10962/13)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,
vJohnny Velez-Garriga, appellant.


Johnny Velez-Garriga, Dannemora, NY, appellant pro se.
Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Solomon Neubort, and Daniel Berman of counsel), for respondent.
Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Denise A. Corsí of counsel), former appellant 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 March 21, 2018 (People v Velez-Garriga, 159 AD3d 928), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered July 29, 2015.
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., CHAMBERS, HINDS-RADIX and CHRISTOPHER, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court


