Case ID: ad2d_261/html/0543-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Angel Cardona, Petitioner, v Angelo J. Ingrassia, as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Respondent.
    [688 NYS2d 907]
   —Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel the respondent to provide him with a copy of the felony complaint, omnibus motion, and indictment in the matter entitled People v Cardona pending in the County Court, Westchester County, under Indictment No. 91-01203, and application for poor person relief.

Ordered that the application is granted; and it is further,

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 when there exists a clear legal right to the relief sought (see, Matter of Legal Aid Socy. v Scheinman, 53 NY2d 12, 16). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought. Bracken, J. P., Santucci, McGinity and Feuerstein, JJ., concur.