
    The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Robert Saunders, Appellant.
    [764 NYS2d 202]
   —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 January 14, 2002 (People v Saunders, 290 AD2d 461 [2002]), affirming a judgment of the County Court, Orange County, rendered December 2, 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]). Santucci, J.P., S. Miller, Friedmann and Cozier, JJ., concur.  