| Matter of People of the State of New York ex rel. Beal v Ponte |
| 2018 NY Slip Op 07679 [166 AD3d 450] |
| November 13, 2018 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| In the Matter of The People of the State of New York
ex rel. Lizzie-Anne Beal, on Behalf of A.P., Appellant, v Joseph Ponte, Respondent. |
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York (Guyon H. Knight of counsel), and Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Elizabeth Bender of counsel), for appellant.
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Christopher Mills of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal from judgment (denominated an order), Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel P. FitzGerald, J.), entered on or about August 9, 2017, denying the petition for a writ of habeas corpus and dismissing the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 70, unanimously dismissed, without costs, as moot.
This appeal is moot because petitioner is no longer incarcerated. We decline to apply the exception to the mootness doctrine (see Matter of Hearst Corp. v Clyne, 50 NY2d 707, 714-715 [1980]). Petitioner's arguments concerning mootness and the exception to that doctrine are unavailing (see People ex rel. Lassiter v Schriro, 114 AD3d 593 [1st Dept 2014], lv denied 23 NY3d 906 [2014]). Concur—Renwick, J.P., Tom, Mazzarelli, Webber, Kern, JJ.