IN RE: Christopher Saint Jour (2026)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.

IN RE: Christopher Saint Jour, petitioner, v. Michael D. Kitsis, etc., respondent.

2026–03045

Decided: June 03, 2026

ANGELA G. IANNACCI, J.P. HELEN VOUTSINAS DONNA–MARIE E. GOLIA SUSAN QUIRK, JJ.

Christopher Saint Jour, Brooklyn, NY, petitioner pro se. Letitia James, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Charles F. Sanders of counsel), for respondent.

DECISION & JUDGMENT

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus to compel the respondent, Michael D. Kitsis, an Acting Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, to decide a certain motion in an action entitled People v. Saint–Jour, pending in the Supreme Court, Kings County, under Indictment No. 74917/23.

ADJUDGED that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits, without costs or disbursements.

The extraordinary remedy of mandamus will lie only to compel the performance of a ministerial act, and only where there exists a clear legal right to the relief sought (see Matter of Legal Aid Socy. of Sullivan County v Scheinman, 53 N.Y.2d 12, 16). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought.

IANNACCI, J.P., VOUTSINAS, GOLIA and QUIRK, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Darrell M. Joseph

Clerk of the Court

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