Matter of Best v State of New York, 2022 NY Slip Op 07068 [211 AD3d 837]

December 14, 2022

Appellate Division, Second Department

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In the Matter of Hilary Best, Petitioner,

v

State of New York et al., Respondents.

Hilary Best, Forest Hills, NY, petitioner pro se.

Letitia James, Attorney General, New York, NY (Melissa Ysaguirre of counsel), for respondents.

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of prohibition to prohibit the respondents from accepting, processing, and adjudicating unsworn criminal complaints, and application by the petitioner for poor person relief.

Ordered that the application for poor person relief 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 proceeding is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.

This Court does not have subject matter jurisdiction to entertain this proceeding ( see CPLR 7804 [b]; 506 [b]; Matter of Nolan v Lungen , 61 NY2d 788, 789-790 [1984]). Dillon, J.P., Duffy, Dowling and Wan, JJ., concur..