Opinion
June 11, 2001.
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel the respondents to dismiss Queens County Indictment No. 1265/98, and application for leave to prosecute the proceeding as a poor person.
Peter M. Chalif, E. Elmhurst, N.Y., petitioner pro se.
Eliot Spitzer, Attorney-General, New York, N.Y. (Charles F. Sanders of counsel), for respondent Robert J. Hanophy.
Before: GLORIA GOLDSTEIN, J.P., LEO F. McGINITY, ROBERT W. SCHMIDT, BARRY A. COZIER, JJ.
Motion by the respondent Robert J. Hanophy to dismiss the proceeding.
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,
ORDERED that the motion is granted; and it is further,
ADJUDGED that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.
The extraordinary remedy of mandamus will lie only to compel the performance of a ministerial act, and only when there exists a clear legal right to the relief sought (see, Matter of Legal Aid Society of Sullivan County v. Scheinman, 53 N.Y.2d 12, 16). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought.