Opinion
7604 Index 452219/17
11-13-2018
In re The PEOPLE of the State of New York, EX REL. Lizzie–Anne BEAL, on Behalf of A.P., Petitioner–Appellant, v. Joseph PONTE, etc., Respondent–Respondent.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York (Guyon H. Knight of counsel), and Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Elizabeth Bender of counsel), for appellant. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Christopher Mills of counsel), for respondent.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York (Guyon H. Knight of counsel), and Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Elizabeth Bender of counsel), for appellant.
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Christopher Mills of counsel), for respondent.
Renwick, J.P., Tom, Mazzarelli, Webber, Kern, JJ.
Appeal from judgment (denominated an order), Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel P. FitzGerald, J.), entered on or about August 9, 2017, denying the petition for a writ of habeas corpus and dismissing the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 70, unanimously dismissed, without costs, as moot.
This appeal is moot because petitioner is no longer incarcerated. We decline to apply the exception to the mootness doctrine (see Matter of Hearst Corp. v. Clyne, 50 N.Y.2d 707, 714–715, 431 N.Y.S.2d 400, 409 N.E.2d 876 [1980] ). Petitioner's arguments concerning mootness and the exception to that doctrine are unavailing (see People ex rel. Lassiter v. Schriro, 114 A.D.3d 593, 980 N.Y.S.2d 757 [1st Dept. 2014], lv denied 23 N.Y.3d 906, 2014 WL 2609553 [2014] ).