Matter of Pettus v People
2011 NY Slip Op 01850 [82 AD3d 897]
March 8, 2011
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 11, 2011


In the Matter of James Pettus, Petitioner,
v
People of State of New York, Respondent.

[*1] James Pettus, Pine City, N.Y., petitioner pro se. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Charles F. Sanders of counsel), for respondent.

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus to compel the People of the State of New York to investigate the manner in which the District Attorney for the County of Kings presented allegations of the petitioner's criminal wrongdoing to a grand jury in an underlying criminal action entitled People v Pettus, commenced in that the Supreme Court, Kings County, under indictment No. 6013/02, purportedly without filing a criminal complaint, 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 proceeding is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.

This Court does not have subject matter jurisdiction to entertain this proceeding (see CPLR 7804 [b]; 506 [b]). Rivera, J.P., Balkin, Leventhal and Hall, JJ., concur.