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In re Griffin

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Apr 27, 2010
72 A.D.3d 1084 (N.Y. App. Div. 2010)

Opinion

No. 2009-01822.

April 27, 2010.

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of prohibition, inter alia, to prohibit any further proceedings in the matter entitled People v Griffin, pending in the County Court, Suffolk County, under indictment No. 08-00221, and application by the petitioner to prosecute the proceeding as a poor person.

ADJUDGED that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.

Raymond Griffin, Riverhead, N.Y., petitioner pro se.

Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Monica A. Connell of counsel), for respondent James Doyle.

Before: Skelos, J.P., Balkin, Leventhal and Lott, JJ., concur.


Ordered that the application to prosecute the appeal as a poor person is granted to the extent that the filing fee imposed by CPLR 8022 (b) is waived, and the application is otherwise denied as academic; and it is further, Adjudged that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.

The proceeding has been rendered academic as a result of a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered October 5, 2009.


Summaries of

In re Griffin

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Apr 27, 2010
72 A.D.3d 1084 (N.Y. App. Div. 2010)
Case details for

In re Griffin

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of RAYMOND GRIFFIN, Petitioner, v. JAMES DOYLE et al.…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Apr 27, 2010

Citations

72 A.D.3d 1084 (N.Y. App. Div. 2010)
2010 N.Y. Slip Op. 3446
898 N.Y.S.2d 878

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