Opinion
2017–11814
12-27-2017
In the Matter of Malik PETERS, petitioner, v. Vincent DEL GIUDICE, etc., et al., respondents.
Lawrence P. LaBrew, New York, NY, for petitioner. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Charles F. Sanders of counsel), for respondent Vincent Del Giudice. Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Jean M. Joyce of counsel), respondent pro se.
Lawrence P. LaBrew, New York, NY, for petitioner.
Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Charles F. Sanders of counsel), for respondent Vincent Del Giudice.
Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Jean M. Joyce of counsel), respondent pro se.
L. PRISCILLA HALL, J.P., LEONARD B. AUSTIN, SANDRA L. SGROI, LINDA CHRISTOPHER, JJ.
DECISION & JUDGMENT
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of prohibition, inter alia, to prohibit the respondents Vincent Del Giudice, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, and Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney of Kings County, from proceeding with the trial of the petitioner in a criminal action entitled People v. Peters, pending in that court under Indictment No. 8885/15.
ADJUDGED that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits, without costs or disbursements.
"Because of its extraordinary nature, prohibition is available only where there is a clear legal right, and then only when a court—in cases where judicial authority is challenged—acts or threatens to act either without jurisdiction or in excess of its authorized powers" (Matter of Holtzman v. Goldman, 71 N.Y.2d 564, 569, 528 N.Y.S.2d 21, 523 N.E.2d 297 ; see Matter of Rush v. Mordue, 68 N.Y.2d 348, 352, 509 N.Y.S.2d 493, 502 N.E.2d 170 ).
The petitioner has failed to establish a clear legal right to the relief sought.
HALL, J.P., AUSTIN, SGROI and CHRISTOPHER, JJ., concur.