
    The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Patrick Stephens, Appellant.
    [755 NYS2d 642]
   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 23, 2000 (People v Stephens, 276 AD2d 725 [2000]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered June 30, 1998.

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]). Prudenti, P.J., Krausman, Friedmann and Schmidt, JJ., concur.  