Case Name: In the Matter of Jose Alex Fuentes, Petitioner, v. James P. Sullivan, as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2005-06-06
Citations: 19 A.D.3d 419
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Jose Alex Fuentes, Petitioner, v James P. Sullivan, as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 19
Pages: 419–420

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Jose Alex Fuentes, Petitioner, v James P. Sullivan, as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, et al., Respondents.
[795 NYS2d 905]

Opinion:
Proceeding pursuant to CFLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, in effect, to direct the respondent James E Sullivan, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, to vacate an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County, dated February 14, 2005, which denied the petitioner's motion to dismiss Kings County indictment No. 2465/04 on speedy trial grounds, 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 is waived, and the application is otherwise denied; 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. of Sullivan County v Scheinman, 53 NY2d 12, 16 [1981]). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought. Cozier, J.P., Luciano, Crane and Skelos, JJ., concur.