People v. Simpson

2018 NY Slip Op 6272

Opinion

People v Simpson (2018 NY Slip Op 06272)

People v Simpson

2018 NY Slip Op 06272

Decided on September 26, 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 September 26, 2018 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
RUTH C. BALKIN, J.P.
JOHN M. LEVENTHAL
SANDRA L. SGROI
BETSY BARROS, JJ.

2015-01221
(Ind. No. 1008/14)

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

v

Cedric N. Simpson, appellant.

Cedric Simpson, named herein as Cedric N. Simpson, Dannemora, NY, appellant pro se.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (Jonathan K. Yi of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Benjamin S. Litman 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 June 7, 2017 (People v Simpson, 151 AD3d 762), determining an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered February 3, 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).

BALKIN, J.P., LEVENTHAL, SGROI and BARROS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court