Case Name: In the Matter of Lablidi Elmustapha, Petitioner, v. Matthew J. D'Emic, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Rings County, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2016-09-28
Citations: 142 A.D.3d 1170
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Lablidi Elmustapha, Petitioner, v Matthew J. D’Emic, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Rings County, et al., Respondents.
Judges: Eng, P.J., Leventhal, Hinds-Radix and Connolly, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 142
Pages: 1170–1170

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Lablidi Elmustapha, Petitioner, v Matthew J. D’Emic, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Rings County, et al., Respondents.
[37 NYS3d 905]

Opinion:
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, inter alia, in the nature of mandamus to compel the respondent Matthew J. D'Emic, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Kangs County, to dismiss the indictment in a certain criminal action pending in the Supreme Court, Kings County, 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 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.
Eng, P.J., Leventhal, Hinds-Radix and Connolly, JJ., concur.