Matter of Wright v Paradiso, 2020 NY Slip Op 01353 [180 AD3d 1053]

February 26, 2020

Appellate Division, Second Department

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In the Matter of Esau S. Wright, Petitioner,

v

Anthony Paradiso et al., Respondents.

Esau S. Wright, East Meadow, NY, petitioner pro se.

Letitia James, Attorney General, New York, NY (Charles F. Sanders of counsel), for respondents.

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, inter alia, in the nature of mandamus to compel the respondent Anthony Paradiso, a Judge of the District Court, Nassau County, and the respondents Meryl Berkowitz and Christopher Quinn, Judges of the County Court, Nassau County, to grant the petitioner an examination pursuant to CPL 180.80 in an action entitled People v Wright , under Nassau County Indictment No. 1322N/17, 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 as academic, without costs or disbursements.

This proceeding has been rendered academic in light of the defendant’s conviction on December 20, 2019, upon his plea of guilty. Dillon, J.P., Miller, Barros and Connolly, JJ., concur..