People ex rel. Backman v Walsh |
2012 NY Slip Op 08608 [101 AD3d 1316] |
December 13, 2012 |
Appellate Division, Third Department |
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
People ex rel. Prince Backman, Appellant, v Jim Walsh, as Superintendent of Sullivan Correctional Facility, Respondent. |
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Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Frank Brady of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (LaBuda, J.), entered March 13, 2012 in Sullivan County, which denied petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, without a hearing.
In 1993, petitioner was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. Petitioner's conviction was affirmed on appeal (People v Backman, 248 AD2d 164 [1998]). Thereafter, petitioner brought several CPL article 440 motions and commenced a proceeding seeking a writ of error coram nobis and a federal habeas corpus proceeding, all of which were denied. In 2010, petitioner commenced this proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70 seeking a writ of habeas corpus claiming that the indictment was defective and the trial evidence was insufficient to sustain the conviction. Supreme Court denied petitioner's application without a hearing, and petitioner now appeals.
"Habeas corpus relief is not an appropriate remedy for asserting claims that were or could have been raised on direct appeal or in a CPL article 440 motion, even if they are jurisdictional in nature" (People ex rel. Hemphill v Rock, 95 AD3d 1579, 1579 [2012] [internal quotation marks and citations omitted]; see People ex rel. Chapman v LaClair, 64 AD3d 1026, 1026 [2009], lv denied 13 NY3d 712 [2009]). The record discloses no extraordinary [*2]circumstances that would warrant departure from traditional orderly procedure (see People ex rel. Collins v Billnier, 87 AD3d 1208, 1209 [2011], lv denied 18 NY3d 802 [2011]). Accordingly, there is no basis upon which to disturb the denial of petitioner's application.
Rose, J.P., Lahtinen, Spain, McCarthy and Garry, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.