Matter of Reed v Annucci |
2019 NY Slip Op 06673 [175 AD3d 1700] |
September 19, 2019 |
Appellate Division, Third Department |
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
In the Matter of Robert Reed, Appellant, v Anthony J. Annucci, as Acting Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al., Respondents. |
Robert Reed, Malone, appellant pro se.
Letitia James, Attorney General, Albany (Martin A. Hotvet of counsel), for respondents.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Feldstein, J.), entered January 2, 2019 in Franklin County, which, upon reargument, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, among other things, adhered to its prior decision granting respondents' motion to dismiss the petition.
In 1993, petitioner was convicted of two counts of rape in the first degree and was sentenced
by the Niagara County Court to consecutive terms of 8
In May 2017, petitioner commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding seeking to be released from custody on the ground that he remains unlawfully confined. Respondent Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision moved to dismiss the petition for failure to state a cause of action and based on the doctrine of collateral estoppel. In December 2017, Supreme Court granted the motion and dismissed the petition. Thereafter, petitioner moved to vacate the judgment dismissing the petition and, in April 2018, Supreme Court denied the motion. In October 2018, petitioner made another motion denominated a "CPLR 2221 motion" for reargument seeking immediate release from prison and a "[d]efault pursuant to CPLR 3215." Supreme Court denied this motion as well, and petitioner now appeals.[FN*]
We affirm. Initially, a motion for reargument must "be made within [30] days after service of a copy of the order determining the prior motion and written notice of its entry" (CPLR 2221 [d] [3]). Petitioner's motion for reargument is clearly untimely as it was made in October 2018, more than 30 days after the dates that written notices of entry of the December 2017 and April 2018 judgments were filed (see CPLR 2221 [d] [3]). In any event, petitioner failed to demonstrate that Supreme Court, in dismissing the petition, "overlooked or misapprehended the facts and/or the law or mistakenly arrived at its earlier decision," as is necessary to succeed on a motion for reargument (Guidarelli v City of Schenectady, 167 AD3d 1402, 1403 [2018] [internal quotation marks and citations omitted]). Notably, the main thrust of petitioner's motion centers upon his claim that he is entitled to immediate release due to deficiencies in the order of commitment, a matter that has been previously litigated with an outcome unfavorable to petitioner. Petitioner's remaining contentions have been considered and have been found to be lacking in merit.
Egan Jr., J.P., Mulvey, Devine, Rumsey and Pritzker, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.