Court Opinion

ID: 5836725
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 22:40:50.309668+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:43:37.604848
License: Public Domain

Greenblott, J. P. (concurring).
In my view, prohibition does not lie because the Cohoes Police Court acted within its jurisdiction. The extraordinary remedy of prohibition is available only when a court acts or threatens to act without jurisdiction over the subject matter or where it exceeds its authorized powers in a proceeding over which it has jurisdiction (Matter of State of New York v King, 36 NY2d 59, 62). Since a court has inherent power to review its own judgments and correct its own mistakes and errors (Matter of Lyons v Goldstein, 290 NY 19, 25), the Cohoes Police Court had jurisdiction to entertain a motion to vacate its prior order whereby it had improperly directed appellant to execute a release in favor of the police officer who had arrested him. (See Dziuma v Korvettes, Div. of Arlen Realty & Dev. Corp., 61 AD2d 677, 679.) Accordingly, the judgment should be reversed, on the law, and the petition dismissed.