LaFemina v. Brown

—Determination of respondent Police Commissioner dated October 31, 1991, which found petitioner guilty of unjustifiably striking a civilian and then lying to an investigator about the cause of the civilian’s injury, and suspended petitioner from his position as a police officer for a period of five days, is unanimously confirmed, the petition denied and the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, New York County [Shirley Fingerhood, J.], entered June 2, 1992), is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.

The hearing testimony of…