Opinion
No. 2011-07393.
September 20, 2011.
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, in effect, in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel Fernando M. Camacho, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Queens County, to appoint a special prosecutor in an underlying criminal action entitled People v Husein, pending under Queens County indictment No. 3033/2010.
Douglas G. Rankin, Brooklyn, N.Y., for petitioner.
Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Roberta L. Martin of counsel), for respondent Fernando M. Camacho.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (Roni C. Piplani of counsel), respondent pro se.
Before: Mastro, J.P., Skelos, Dickerson and Lott, JJ.
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 where there exists a clear legal right to the relief sought ( see Matter of Legal Aid Socy. of Sullivan County v Scheinman, 53 NY2d 12, 16). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought.