Salino v. Cimino

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review a determination of the respondent Suffolk County Attorney, dated April 20, 2000, denying the petitioner’s request that the respondent County Attorney defend him in a federal civil rights action entitled Kay v County of Suffolk, pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, under Index No. CV-00-1161, the petitioner appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Berler, J.), entered March 7, 2001, which denied the petition and dismissed the proceeding.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed,…