Ayala v. Ward

Determination of the respondent Police Commissioner dated August 31, 1989, 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 Sup Ct, NY County [Shirley Fingerhood, J.], entered Jan. 3, 1990) dismissed, without costs and without disbursements.

The hearsay statements made to petitioner by his 17-year-old girlfriend, which were admitted at the administrative hearing, constituted substantial evidence sufficient to support the administrative…