People v. Shears

2020 NY Slip Op 06153, 187 A.D.3d 1220, 131 N.Y.S.3d 278

Opinion

People v Shears (2020 NY Slip Op 06153)

People v Shears

2020 NY Slip Op 06153

Decided on October 28, 2020

Appellate Division, Second Department

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Decided on October 28, 2020 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
RUTH C. BALKIN, J.P.
SHERRI S. ROMAN
BETSY BARROS
LINDA C. CHRISTOPHER, JJ.

2005-06539
(Ind. No. 2702N/03)

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

v

Eddie Shears, appellant.

Eddie Shears, Stormville, NY, appellant pro se.

Madeline Singas, District Attorney, Mineola, NY (Judith R. Sternberg and Autumn S. Hughes of counsel), for respondent.

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 May 1, 2007 (People v Shears, 40 AD3d 661), determining an appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County, rendered June 30, 2005.

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).

BALKIN, J.P., ROMAN, BARROS and CHRISTOPHER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court