McFadden v. Brown

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

McFadden v. Brown

10 A.D.3d 725, 781 N.Y.S.2d 905, 2004 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11046

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedSeptember 27, 2004

StatusPublished

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McFadden v. Brown, 10 A.D.3d 725, 781 N.Y.S.2d 905, 2004 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11046 (N.Y. Ct. App. 2004).

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Opinion

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel the dismissal of a criminal action pending in the Supreme Court, Queens County, under indictment No. 1417/03, and application by the petitioner for poor person relief.

Upon the papers filed in support of the proceeding and application and the papers filed in opposition thereto, it is,

Ordered that the application for poor person relief is granted to the extent that the filing fee imposed by CPLR 8022 is waived and the application is otherwise denied; and it is further,

[726]*726Adjudged 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 Socy. of Sullivan County v Scheinman, 53 NY2d 12, 16 [1981]). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought. Santucci, J.P., H. Miller, Adams and Fisher, JJ., concur.

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