Court Opinion

ID: 6089950
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 19:45:34.02524+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:52:32.472906
License: Public Domain

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel the respondent Ira H. Wexner, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, to release minutes of the grand jury proceeding in a criminal action against the petitioner entitled People v Fore, pending in that court, and application by the petitioner for poor person relief.
Upon the papers filed in support of the proceeding and application and no papers having been filed in opposition thereto, it is,
Ordered that the application for poor person relief 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. of Sullivan County v Scheinman, 53 NY2d 12, 16). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought. Feuerstein, J.P., Smith, Friedmann and Luciano, JJ., concur.