MATTER OF BROWN v. RISTICH


36 N.Y.2d 183 (1975)

In the Matter of Joan Brown, Respondent, v. Miodrag Ristich, as Director of Willowbrook State School, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 25, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Shirley Adelson Siegel and Samuel A. Hirshowitz of counsel), for appellant.

William P. Volin for respondent.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and COOKE concur.


GABRIELLI, J.

The question presented is whether unsworn testimony may be received and given effect in an administrative disciplinary proceeding under section 75 of the Civil Service Law. The problem arises out of the dismissal of the petitioner, an attendant at Willowbrook State Hospital for the Mentally Retarded, found to have struck a patient. The evidence against petitioner consisted in large part of the eyewitness...

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