Asaro v. Kerik

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert Lippmann, J.), entered June 6, 2001, which granted the CPLR article 78 petition and annulled respondent’s determination dismissing petitioner from the Police Department, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the petition dismissed, and the determination confirmed.

Petitioner became a police officer in 1994. Following an administrative hearing, petitioner was discharged in September 2000 based on findings that, while off duty, he had engaged in sexual abuse and harassment in July 1998 at a bar. The Administrative Law Judge found that…