| Matter of Husein v Camacho |
| 2011 NY Slip Op 06560 [87 AD3d 1068] |
| September 20, 2011 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| In the Matter of Shazad Husein, Petitioner, v Fernando M. Camacho et al., Respondents. |
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Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Roberta L. Martin of counsel),
for respondent Fernando M. Camacho.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (Roni C. Piplani of counsel),
respondent pro se.
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, in effect, in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel Fernando M. Camacho, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Queens County, to appoint a special prosecutor in an underlying criminal action entitled People v Husein, pending under Queens County indictment No. 3033/2010.
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 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 [1981]). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought. Mastro, J.P., Skelos, Dickerson and Lott, JJ., concur.