Opinion
12-21-2016
In the Matter of Mowngly LUCAS, petitioner, v. Martin MURPHY, etc., respondent.
Mowngly Lucas, East Elmhurst, N.Y., petitioner pro se. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Jonathan D. Conley of counsel), for respondent.
Mowngly Lucas, East Elmhurst, N.Y., petitioner pro se.
Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Jonathan D. Conley of counsel), for respondent.
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel the respondent Martin Murphy, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, to dismiss a criminal action entitled People v. Lucas, commenced in that court under Indictment No. 4635/16, and application by the petitioner for poor person relief.
ORDERED that the application for poor person relief is granted to the extent that the filing fee imposed by CPLR 8022(b) is waived, and the application is otherwise denied as academic; and it is further,
ADJUDGED that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits, without costs or disbursements.
The extraordinary remedy of mandamus will lie only to compel the performance of a ministerial act, and only where there exists a clear legal right to the relief sought (see Matter of Legal Aid Soc. of Sullivan County v. Scheinman, 53 N.Y.2d 12, 16, 439 N.Y.S.2d 882, 422 N.E.2d 542 ). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought.
RIVERA, J.P., CHAMBERS, MALTESE and LaSALLE, JJ., concur.