Case Name: In the Matter of Robert M. Morgenthau, as District Attorney of New York County, Respondent, v. Jay Gold, as Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, et al., Appellants, and Legal Aid Society, Intervenor-Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1987-01-20
Citations: 69 N.Y.2d 735
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Robert M. Morgenthau, as District Attorney of New York County, Respondent, v Jay Gold, as Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, et al., Appellants, and Legal Aid Society, Intervenor-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 69
Pages: 735–737

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Robert M. Morgenthau, as District Attorney of New York County, Respondent, v Jay Gold, as Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, et al., Appellants, and Legal Aid Society, Intervenor-Appellant.
Argued January 14, 1987;
decided January 20, 1987
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Jane Levine, Lawrence S. Kahn, O. Peter Sherwood and Colvin W. Grannum of counsel), and Douglas S. Liebhafsky, Bernard W. Nussbaum and Richard H. Weiss for Jay Gold, Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, appellant.
Steven G. Asin and Caesar Cirigliano for Legal Aid Society, intervenor-appellant.
Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney (Susan Corkery and Amy jane Rettew of counsel), respondent pro se.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Order reversed, without costs, and petition dismissed upon the ground that mandamus does not lie absent a clear right in petitioner to the relief sought.
Concur: Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Simons, Kaye, Alexander, Titone and Hancock, Jr. Taking no part: Judge Bellacosa.