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MATTER OF MORGENTHAU v. GOLD

69 N.Y.2d 735 (1987)

In the Matter of Robert M. Morgenthau, as District Attorney of New York County, Respondent, v. Jay Gold, as Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, et al., Appellants, and Legal Aid Society, Intervenor-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided January 20, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Jane Levine, Lawrence S. Kahn, O. Peter Sherwood and Colvin W. Grannum of counsel), and Douglas S. Liebhafsky, Bernard W. Nussbaum and Richard H. Weiss for Jay Gold, Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, appellant.

Steven G. Asin and Caesar Cirigliano for Legal Aid Society, intervenor-appellant.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney (Susan Corkery and Amyjane Rettew of counsel), respondent pro se.

Concur: Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR. Taking no part: Judge BELLACOSA.

Order reversed, without costs, and petition dismissed upon the ground that mandamus does not lie absent a clear right in petitioner to the...

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