People v. Quinones

Opinion

People v Quinones

2026 NY Slip Op 04962

August 12, 2026

Appellate Division, Second Department

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

This decision is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

The People of the State of New York, respondent,

v

Eric Quinones, appellant.

Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

Decided on August 12, 2026

1996-04955, (Ind. No. 12926/95)

Lara J. Genovesi, J.P.

Valerie Brathwaite Nelson

Barry E. Warhit

Lillian Wan, JJ.

Patricia Pazner, New York, NY (Alice R. B. Cullina of counsel), for appellant, and appellant pro se.

Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Avshalom Yotam of counsel), for respondent.

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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 June 15, 1998 (People v Quinones, 251 AD2d 517), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered May 23, 1996.

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).

GENOVESI, J.P., BRATHWAITE NELSON, WARHIT and WAN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Darrell M. Joseph

Clerk of the Court