People ex rel. Hunter v Buffardi
2005 NYSlipOp 01064
February 10, 2005
Appellate Division, Third Department
As corrected through Wednesday, April 20, 2005


The People of the State of New York ex rel. Tracy Hunter, Appellant, v Harry C. Buffardi, as Sheriff of Schenectady County, Respondent.

[*1]Peters, J.P. Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Caruso, J.), entered January 20, 2004 in Schenectady County, which denied petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, without a hearing.

Petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus sought release from the Schenectady County jail on the grounds that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel as well as the right to a speedy trial. Supreme Court summarily denied the application without a hearing and petitioner now appeals.

We affirm. Neither of petitioner's claims is properly brought via an application for a writ of habeas corpus but rather is more properly the subject of a direct appeal from the judgment of conviction or a CPL article 440 motion (see People ex rel. Barnett v Senkowski, 294 AD2d 686, 686-687 [2002]; People ex rel. Hall v Campbell, 290 AD2d 672, 673 [2002], lv denied 98 NY2d 601 [2002]; People ex rel. White v La Vallee, 51 AD2d 1093, 1094 [1976]). Furthermore, we find no extraordinary circumstances presented here that "warrant a departure from the prescribed orderly procedures" (People ex rel. Woodard v Senkowski, 305 AD2d 879, [2003], lv denied [*2]100 NY2d 511 [2003]).

Mugglin, Rose, Lahtinen and Kane, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.


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