
    The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Leon Bell, Appellant.
    [36 NYS3d 921]
   — 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 December 9, 1996 (People v Bell, 234 AD2d 378 [1996]), affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered December 18, 1991.

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]). Mastro,

J.P., Rivera, Dillon and Connolly, JJ., concur.  