MATTER OF ALFIERI v. MURPHY


38 N.Y.2d 976 (1976)

In the Matter of Placidio Alfieri, Appellant, v. Patrick V. Murphy, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 25, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter H. Crowley for appellant.

W. Bernard Richland, Corporation Counsel (Irving Cohen and L. Kevin Sheridan of counsel), for respondents.

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


MEMORANDUM.

We see no reason in the record to disturb the finding by the Appellate Division that the Police Commissioner's determination is supported by substantial evidence. Further, while the sanction of dismissal is a grave one, so is the act which here brought it about. The smallness of the value of the property petitioner stole does not diminish the moral turpitude thus disclosed. Nor does it ameliorate the destructive...

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