Case Name: In the Matter of Jean Azor, Petitioner, v. Patricia M. DiMango, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2014-05-14
Citations: 117 A.D.3d 824
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Jean Azor, Petitioner, v Patricia M. DiMango, Respondent.
Judges: Mastro, J.P., Leventhal, Chambers and Austin, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 117
Pages: 824–824

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Jean Azor, Petitioner, v Patricia M. DiMango, Respondent.
[984 NYS2d 884]

Opinion:
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus to compel the respondent, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, to resentence the petitioner under Kings County indictment No. 11337/08, and application 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 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.
Mastro, J.P., Leventhal, Chambers and Austin, JJ., concur.