People v. Watson

2018 NY Slip Op 446
CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
DecidedJanuary 24, 2018
Docket2012-07707
StatusPublished

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People v. Watson, 2018 NY Slip Op 446 (N.Y. Ct. App. 2018).

Opinion

People v Watson (2018 NY Slip Op 00446)
People v Watson
2018 NY Slip Op 00446
Decided on January 24, 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 January 24, 2018 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
JOHN M. LEVENTHAL, J.P.
JEFFREY A. COHEN
SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX
HECTOR D. LASALLE, JJ.

2012-07707
(Ind. No. 4828/11)

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

v

Earl Watson, appellant.


Earl Watson, Auburn, NY, appellant pro se.

Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Thomas M. Ross, and Terrence F. Heller of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY, 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 October 15, 2014 (People v Watson, 121 AD3d 921), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered July 30, 2012.

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).

LEVENTHAL, J.P., COHEN, HINDS-RADIX and LASALLE, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court



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Related

Jones v. Barnes
463 U.S. 745 (Supreme Court, 1983)
People v. Stultz
810 N.E.2d 883 (New York Court of Appeals, 2004)
People v. Watson
121 A.D.3d 921 (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2014)

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