Matter of Holley v. Hyun-Chin Kim

2025 NY Slip Op 05682
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York·Decided October 15, 2025·No. 2025-08744·Published

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Matter of Holley v Hyun-Chin Kim (2025 NY Slip Op 05682)

Matter of Holley v Hyun-Chin Kim
2025 NY Slip Op 05682
Decided on October 15, 2025
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.


Decided on October 15, 2025 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
MARK C. DILLON, J.P.
BARRY E. WARHIT
CARL J. LANDICINO
PHILLIP HOM, JJ.

2025-08744

[*1]In the Matter of Edward Holley, petitioner,

v

Hyun-Chin Kim, etc., et al., respondents.


Eli Davis Siems, Newburgh, NY (Christopher Brennan Sevier and Paul N. Weber of counsel), for petitioner.

Letitia James, Attorney General, New York, NY (Charles F. Sanders of counsel), for respondent Hyun-Chin Kim.

Julia D. Cornachio Law, PLLC, Hopewell Junction, NY (Julia D. Cornachio, named herein as Julia Cornachio, pro se of counsel), for respondent Julia Cornachio.



DECISION & JUDGMENT

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of prohibition to prohibit the respondents from retrying the petitioner in a criminal action entitled People v Holley , pending in the County Court, Orange County, under Indictment No. 70063/24, on the ground that to do so would subject him to double jeopardy.

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 NY2d 564, 569; see Matter of Rush v Mordue , 68 NY2d 348, 352). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought.

DILLON, J.P., WARHIT, LANDICINO and HOM, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Darrell M. Joseph

Clerk of the Court



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