Mulhall v. Fitzgerald

—Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Torraca, J.), entered May 14, 1997 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondent partially denying petitioner’s request under the Freedom of Information Law.

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law art 6), petitioner, a prison inmate, requested that he be provided with various documents in connection with his arrest and indictment on charges of arson in the third degree and petit larceny. Respondent, inter alia, denied that…