People ex rel. Cender v. LeFevre

— Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Walsh, Jr., J.), entered April 5, 1982 in Clinton County, which denied petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus, without a hearing. Since a writ of habeas corpus is not an appropriate vehicle to challenge errors which were or could have been raised on direct appeal from a criminal conviction CPeople ex rel. Douglas v Vincent, 50 NY2d 901, affg 67 AD2d 587; see People ex rel. Keitt v McMann, 18 NY2d 257), Special Term denied petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus based upon an allegation in the petition…