In the Matter of the Application of Richard Lee Bates

Motion No: M-4440

Slip Opinion No: 2017 NYSlipOp 93452(U)

Decided on November 28, 2017

Appellate Division, First Department, Motion Decision

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.

November 28, 2017

In the Matter of the Application of

Richard Lee Bates,

Petitioner,

v Justice Robert Stolz, et al.,

Respondents.

The above-named petitioner having moved for, inter alia, a writ of habeas corpus to be issued from this Court, for leave to prosecute same as a poor person, and for related relief, Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is denied and the petition dismissed, without prejudice to raising substantive arguments on the direct appeal of a judgment of conviction rendered on June 8, 2016. ENTERED: November 28, 2017

_____________________ CLERK

PRESENT: Hon. Peter Tom, Justice Presiding, Dianne T. Renwick Angela M. Mazzarelli Jeffrey K. Oing Anil C. Singh, Justices

M-4440

Index No. 191/15