People ex rel. Seda v Hansell, 2018 NY Slip Op 00430 [157 AD3d 897]

January 24, 2018

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York ex rel. Samantha Seda, on Behalf of Jordan Stephens, Petitioner,

v

David Hansell, Respondent.

Seymour W. James, Jr., New York, NY (Samantha Seda, pro se, of counsel), for petitioner.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (Joseph N. Ferdenzi and Matthew Luongo of counsel), for respondent.

Writ of habeas corpus in the nature of an application pursuant to CPL 180.80 to release the defendant in a criminal action entitled People v Stephens , commenced in the Criminal Court of the City of New York, Queens County, under docket No. CR-027129-17QN.

Adjudged that the writ is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.

The writ must be dismissed as academic because the defendant has been released from custody ( see People ex rel. Vancour v Scoralick , 140 AD2d 658 [1988]; see also People ex rel. Lassiter v Schriro , 114 AD3d 593 , 594 [2014]). Rivera, J.P., Leventhal, Maltese and Duffy, JJ., concur..