Matter of Morales v Gugerty (2014 NY Slip Op 06089)
Matter of Morales v Gugerty
2014 NY Slip Op 06089
Decided on September 10, 2014
Appellate Division, Second Department
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Decided on September 10, 2014SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKAppellate Division, Second Judicial DepartmentMARK C. DILLON, J.P.
THOMAS A. DICKERSON
JEFFREY A. COHEN
COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ.


2014-06828	DECISION, ORDER & JUDGMENT

[*1]In the Matter of Adam Morales, petitioner, 
vHelene F. Gugerty, etc., respondent.
Adam Morales, East Meadow, N.Y., petitioner pro se.
Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Michelle R. Lambert of counsel), for respondent.
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel the respondent, Helene F. Gugerty, an Acting Justice of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, to permit the petitioner to proceed pro se and to recuse herself from presiding over the criminal action entitled People v Morales , commenced in that court under Indictment No. 1628/13, 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). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought.
DILLON, J.P., DICKERSON, COHEN and DUFFY, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court


