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In the Matter of DOMINIC TURDO, Petitioner, v. ISAAC RUBIN, as Justice of the Supreme Court of the Ninth Judicial District of the State of New York, Respondent.

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to compel the respondent to accept the petitioner's plea of guilty to the offense of unlawful possession of marihuana in satisfaction of Indictment No. 78-00307-01, filed by the Grand Jury of Westchester County, which names petitioner as a defendant. Proceeding dismissed on the merits, without costs or disbursements. In People v. Turdo ( 74 A.D.2d 614) we reinstated the entire indictment against petitioner. We did not, and indeed could not, reduce the crime charged to a lesser included offense (see CPL 210.20, subd 1, par [b]; People v. Maier, 72 A.D.2d 754). Petitioner is not entitled, as a matter of right, to plead guilty to a lesser included offense of the crime charged (see CPL 220.10, subd 3). Relief in the nature of mandamus will not lie where the petitioner has no legal right to the relief sought (CPLR 7803, subd 1; Matter of Association of Surrogates Supreme Ct. Reporters within City of N Y v. Bartlett, 40 N.Y.2d 571, 574). Mollen, P.J., Hopkins, Titone and Mangano, JJ., concur.

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MATTER OF TURDO v. RUBIN
(Jul 21, 1980)