People v. Patel

2020 NY Slip Op 619

Opinion

People v Patel (2020 NY Slip Op 00619)

People v Patel

2020 NY Slip Op 00619

Decided on January 29, 2020

Appellate Division, Second Department

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Decided on January 29, 2020 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
ALAN D. SCHEINKMAN, P.J.
MARK C. DILLON
HECTOR D. LASALLE
VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ.

2015-04182
(Ind. No. 1789/13)

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

v

Amit P. Patel, appellant.

Amit Patel, named herein as Amit P. Patel, Coxsackie, NY, appellant pro se.

Melinda Katz, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, Ellen C. Abbot, and John F. McGoldrick of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Kendra L. Hutchinson 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 20, 2019 (People v Patel, 169 AD3d 935), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered April 20, 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).

SCHEINKMAN, P.J., DILLON, LASALLE and BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court