MATTER OF DeFILIPPO v. Rooney

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The judgment of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, without costs, and the certified question not answered on the ground that it is unnecessary.

The Appellate Division correctly concluded that petitioner failed to meet his burden of demonstrating that the alleged prosecutorial misconduct was conducted in a deliberate attempt to provoke him to move for a mistrial (see Matter of Gorghan v DeAngelis, 7 NY3d 470 [2006]). The Appellate Division also properly concluded that petitioner failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the remedy of prohibition (see…