Case Name: In the Matter of William Anderson, Also Known as Andrews, Also Known as Willie Wong, Also Known as Willie Andrews, Petitioner, v. Phillip Chetta, 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: 2000-03-13
Citations: 270 A.D.2d 345
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of William Anderson, Also Known as Andrews, Also Known as Willie Wong, Also Known as Willie Andrews, Petitioner, v Phillip Chetta, as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 270
Pages: 345–345

Head Matter:
In the Matter of William Anderson, Also Known as Andrews, Also Known as Willie Wong, Also Known as Willie Andrews, Petitioner, v Phillip Chetta, as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, et al., Respondents.
[705 NYS2d 246]

Opinion:
—Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, in effect, inter alia, to compel the respondents Phillip Chetta and Barry Kron, Justices of the Supreme Court, Queens County to vacate and set aside their respective denials of motions made by the petitioner in an action entitled People v William Anderson pending against him under Queens County Ind. No. QN10958/98, and application for poor person relief. Motion by the respondent Richard A. Brown to dismiss the proceeding.
Ordered that the application for poor person relief is granted;
and it is further,
Ordered that the motion is granted; 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. v Scheinman, 53 NY2d 12, 16). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought. Altman, J. P., Friedmann, Krausman and Feuerstein, JJ., concur.