Hennessy v. Gorman

• Decision Date: 18 January 1983
• Citation: 445 N.E.2d 644,58 N.Y.2d 806,459 N.Y.S.2d 261
• Court: New York Court of Appeals Court of Appeals
• Parties: , 445 N.E.2d 644 In the Matter of Richard A. HENNESSY, Jr., as District Attorney for the County of Onondaga, Respondent, v. Hon. Walter T. GORMAN, Supreme Court Justice for Onondaga County, &c., Appellant, and Jessie Neal and Willie Carter, Respondents.

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459 N.Y.S.2d 261

58 N.Y.2d 806, 445 N.E.2d 644

In the Matter of Richard A. HENNESSY, Jr., as District Attorney for the County of Onondaga, Respondent, v. Hon. Walter T. GORMAN, Supreme Court Justice for Onondaga County, &c., Appellant, and Jessie Neal and Willie Carter, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Jan. 18, 1983.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. (Peter J. Dooley and Peter H. Schiff, Asst. Attys. Gen., of counsel), for appellant.

Richard A. Hennessy, Jr., Dist. Atty. (John A. Cirando and Gail N. Uebelhoer, Asst. Dist. Attys., of counsel), respondent pro se.

Morris B. Swartz, Syracuse, for Jessie Neal, respondent.

Lawrence M. Ginsburg, New York City, for Willie Carter, respondent.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Judgment reversed, without costs, 87 A.D.2d 29, 450 N.Y.S.2d 638, and the petition dismissed. An Article 78 proceeding generally does not lie to review error claimed to have occurred in a criminal proceeding. (See Matter of State of New York v. King, 36 N.Y.2d 59, 364 N.Y.S.2d 879, 324 N.E.2d 351.)

COOKE, C.J., and JASEN, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and MEYER, JJ., concur.

SIMONS, J., took no part.