People ex rel. Quarterman v. Commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction

— Appeal by the petitioner from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Douglass, J.), dated December 12, 1990, which denied his application for a writ of habeas corpus.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

Under the provisions of the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act (see, CPL art 570), the Governor has an absolute duty, *737upon proper demand, "to have arrested and delivered up to the executive authority of any other state” any person charged in that State with a crime "who has fled from justice and is found in this state” (CPL 570.06; see also, CPL 570.08).…