People v. Dixon

2018 NY Slip Op 843

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: February 7, 2018
• Docket: 2012-01202
• Status: Published

Opinion

People v Dixon (2018 NY Slip Op 00843)

People v Dixon

2018 NY Slip Op 00843

Decided on February 7, 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 February 7, 2018 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.
RUTH C. BALKIN
SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX
HECTOR D. LASALLE, JJ.

2012-01202
(Ind. No. 929/10)

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

v

John Dixon, appellant.

John Dixon, Napanoch, NY, appellant pro se.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, Nancy Fitzpatrick Talcott, and Ayelet Sela of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (A. Alexander Donn 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 April 20, 2016 (People v Dixon, 138 AD3d 1016), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered January 20, 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).

RIVERA, J.P., BALKIN, HINDS-RADIX and LASALLE, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court