Palette v. City of New York

Determination of respondent Police Commissioner, dated April 17, 1992, which dismissed petitioner from his position as a police officer, 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 [Peter Tom, J.], entered November 10, 1992), unanimously dismissed, without costs.

We see no reason to disturb the credibility findings of the Hearing Officer rejecting petitioner’s assertion that the positive finding on his random drug test resulted from his inadvertent ingestion of beer…