People ex rel. Dushain v Ercole
2009 NY Slip Op 05881 [64 AD3d 669]
July 14, 2009
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, September 2, 2009


The People of the State of New York ex rel. Carl Dushain,Appellant,
v
Robert E. Ercole, Respondent.

[*1]Carl Dushain, Stormville, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York, N.Y. (Eleanor J. Ostrow of counsel),for respondent.

In a habeas corpus proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, the petitioner appeals from ajudgment of the Supreme Court, Dutchess County (Brands, J.), dated November 7, 2007, which,without a hearing, denied the petition and dismissed the proceeding.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

A writ of habeas corpus may not be used for review of issues that have been, or could havebeen, reviewed on direct appeal or by a postjudgment motion addressed to the court in which anunderlying judgment of conviction was rendered (see People ex rel. Almeyda v Schultz, 18 AD3d 582 [2005];People ex rel. Barnes v Fischer, 303 AD2d 526 [2003]; People ex rel. Pearson vGarvin, 211 AD2d 690, 691 [1995]; People ex rel. Moore v Scully, 189 AD2d 845[1993]; People ex rel. Benbow v Scully, 189 AD2d 844 [1993]). The allegations in thepetition do not warrant departure from traditional orderly procedure (see People ex rel. Keittv McMann, 18 NY2d 257, 262 [1966]; see also CPL 210.30 [6]). Spolzino, J.P.,Angiolillo, Chambers and Lott, JJ., concur.


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