Thompson v. Lent

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered January 10, 1977 in Ulster County, which denied petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, for an order annulling respondents’ determination dismissing him from the New Paltz Police Department, effective July 2, 1975, and requiring respondents to conduct a new hearing on the question of penalty and back pay. Petitioner was discharged as a police officer after the board of police commissioners found him guilty of a number of charges arising from an incident that began in a Village of New Paltz bar…