People ex rel. Hinspeter v Artus
2018 NY Slip Op 02057 [159 AD3d 1539]
March 23, 2018
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 2, 2018


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 The People of the State of New York ex rel. John A.J. Hinspeter, II, Appellant,
v
Dale A. Artus, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, Respondent.

John A.J. Hinspeter, II, petitioner-appellant pro se.

Appeal from a judgment (denominated order) of the Supreme Court, Wyoming County (Michael M. Mohun, A.J.), entered February 6, 2017, in a habeas corpus proceeding. The judgment denied petitioner's "motion to compel."

It is hereby ordered that said appeal is unanimously dismissed without costs.

Memorandum: Petitioner commenced this proceeding seeking a writ of habeas corpus. His initial petition and a subsequent motion for leave to reargue were denied. He then filed a "motion to compel," which was denied in an order from which he now appeals. Because petitioner "failed to allege any new facts or to demonstrate a change in the law," his motion to compel was in fact a motion to reargue, which has no application to a judgment determining a special proceeding, and from which no appeal lies in any event (People ex rel. Hinton v Graham, 66 AD3d 1402, 1402 [4th Dept 2009], lv denied 13 NY3d 934 [2010], rearg denied 14 NY3d 795 [2010]; see People ex rel. Seals v New York State Dept. of Correctional Servs., 32 AD3d 1262, 1263 [4th Dept 2006]). Moreover, petitioner's substantive claims are not properly raised in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus inasmuch as they "could have been raised on direct appeal or in a proceeding pursuant to CPL article 440" (People ex rel. Frederick v Superintendent, Auburn Corr. Facility, 156 AD3d 1468, 1468 [4th Dept 2017]). Present—Whalen, P.J., Smith, Lindley, DeJoseph and NeMoyer, JJ.