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People ex Rel. Gonzalez v. Bennett

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department
Jul 1, 1999
263 A.D.2d 565 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)

Opinion

July 1, 1999

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Ellison, J.), entered November 2, 1998 in Chemung County, which dismissed petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, without a hearing.

Santo Gonzalez, Stormville, appellant in person.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney-General (Marlene Tuczinski of counsel), Albany, for respondent.

Before: CARDONA, P.J., MIKOLL, MERCURE, CREW III AND PETERS, JJ.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

Petitioner commenced this habeas corpus proceeding alleging that the second count of the indictment was jurisdictionally defective because it does not contain factual allegations to support every element of the crime of attempted murder in the first degree. Supreme Court dismissed the petition and we affirm.

Because petitioner could have raised this issue on direct appeal from his conviction or in his CPL 440.10 motion, habeas corpus relief is unavailable in this case (see, People ex rel. Brown v. Commissioner of N.Y. State Dept. of Correctional Servs., 252 A.D.2d 602; People ex rel. Best v. Senkowski, 200 A.D.2d 808,appeal dismissed 83 N.Y.2d 951). Furthermore, we find no extraordinary circumstances to justify a departure from traditional orderly procedure (see, id.). In any event, petitioner would not be entitled to immediate release given his conviction of various other felonies pursuant to the same indictment (see, People ex rel. Patterson v. Senkowski, 175 A.D.2d 957, 958, lv denied 78 N.Y.2d 864).

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.


Summaries of

People ex Rel. Gonzalez v. Bennett

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department
Jul 1, 1999
263 A.D.2d 565 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)
Case details for

People ex Rel. Gonzalez v. Bennett

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ex rel. SANTO GONZALEZ, Appellant, v…

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

Date published: Jul 1, 1999

Citations

263 A.D.2d 565 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)
693 N.Y.S.2d 263

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