People v DeFreitas
2009 NY Slip Op 02623 [60 AD3d 1080]
March 31, 2009
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 6, 2009


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Miguel DeFreitas, Appellant.

—[*1] Langone & Associates, PLLC, Massapequa, N.Y. (Richard M.Langone of counsel), for appellant.

Kathleen M. Rice, District Attorney, Mineola, N.Y. (Douglas Noll of counsel), for respondent.

Application by the appellant for a writ of error coram nobis to vacate, on the ground of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel, an opinion and order of this Court dated August 14, 1995 (People v DeFreitas, 213 AD2d 96 [1995]), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County, rendered June 9, 1992.

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 [1983]; People v Stultz, 2 NY3d 277 [2004]). Prudenti, P.J., Mastro, Rivera and Ritter, JJ., concur.