Citation Codes Equivalent Citations citation codes Attorney(S) 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. See more information ... Smart Summary Please sign up to generate summary. 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, Inter Order reversed, without costs, and petition dismissed upon the ground that mandamus does not lie absent a clear right in petitioner to the relief sought. Concur: Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR. Taking no part: Judge BELLACOSA.