Case Name: In the Matter of David Holmes, Petitioner, v. Joel L. Blumenfeld, 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: 2007-03-13
Citations: 38 A.D.3d 664
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of David Holmes, Petitioner, v Joel L. Blumenfeld, as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 38
Pages: 664–664

Head Matter:
In the Matter of David Holmes, Petitioner, v Joel L. Blumenfeld, as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, et al., Respondents.
[830 NYS2d 677]

Opinion:
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel the respondent Joel L. Blumenfeld, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Queens County, to vacate the defendant's sentence in an action entitled People v Holmes, under Queens County indictment No. 2144/77, 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; 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. Miller, J.P., Spolzino, Goldstein and McCarthy, JJ., concur.