Case Name: In the Matter of Mowngly Lucas, Petitioner, v. Martin Murphy, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2016-12-21
Citations: 145 A.D.3d 893
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Mowngly Lucas, Petitioner, v Martin Murphy, Respondent.
Judges: Rivera, J.P., Chambers, Maltese and LaSalle, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 145
Pages: 893–893

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Mowngly Lucas, Petitioner, v Martin Murphy, Respondent.
[42 NYS3d 833]

Opinion:
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel the respondent Martin Murphy, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, to dismiss a criminal action entitled People v Lucas, commenced in that court under indictment No. 4635/16, and application by the petitioner for poor person relief.
Ordered that the application for poor person relief is granted to the extent that the filing fee imposed by CPLR 8022 (b) is waived, and the application is otherwise denied as academic; and it is further,
Adjudged that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits, 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 [1981]). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought.
Rivera, J.P., Chambers, Maltese and LaSalle, JJ., concur.