People ex rel. Rivera v Luft

People ex rel. Rivera v Luft 2013 NY Slip Op 05595 Decided on August 7, 2013 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on August 7, 2013
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKAPPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
RUTH C. BALKIN, J.P.
L. PRISCILLA HALL
PLUMMER E. LOTT
ROBERT J. MILLER, JJ.
2013-07172

[*1]The People of the State of New York, ex rel. Carlos Rivera, petitioner,

v

Martha Luft, etc., et al., respondents. Robert J. Del Col, Smithtown, N.Y., for petitioner.




Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Andrew
Meier of counsel), for respondents Martha Luft and Barbara
Lynaugh.
Dennis M. Brown, County Attorney, Hauppauge, N.Y.
(Christopher M. Gatto of counsel), for
respondent Charles Ewald.


DECISION & JUDGMENT

Writ of habeas corpus in the nature of an application to release the petitioner from the Suffolk County Correctional Facility, where he is in custody pursuant to an order of commitment of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Luft, J.).

ADJUDGED that the writ is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.

Under the circumstances presented, the petitioner is not entitled to relief in a habeas corpus proceeding (see CPLR art 70; People ex rel. Vogelfang v Perez, 66 AD3d 1052; People ex rel. Douglas v Vincent, 67 AD2d 587, affd 50 NY2d 901; cf. People ex rel. Bedell v Ercole, 71 AD3d 801).
BALKIN, J.P., HALL, LOTT and MILLER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court