People v. Mason

2020 NY Slip Op 06147, 131 N.Y.S.3d 279, 187 A.D.3d 1214

Opinion

People v Mason (2020 NY Slip Op 06147)

People v Mason

2020 NY Slip Op 06147

Decided on October 28, 2020

Appellate Division, Second Department

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

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Decided on October 28, 2020 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.
JOSEPH J. MALTESE
BETSY BARROS
VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON
ANGELA G. IANNACCI, JJ.

2018-05181
(Ind. No. 5162/2017)

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

v

Eric Mason, appellant.

Eric Mason, Cape Vincent, NY, appellant pro se.

Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Jean M. Joyce, and Daniel Berman of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Sean Nuttall 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 November 6, 2019 (People v Mason, 177 AD3d 640), affirming a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County, imposed February 21, 2018.

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., MALTESE, BARROS, BRATHWAITE NELSON and IANNACCI, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court