MATTER OF THOMPSON v. LENT


53 A.D.2d 721 (1976)

In the Matter of Richard T. Thompson, Petitioner, v. Richard W. Lent et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

June 3, 1976


The petitioner was discharged as a police officer after the board of police commissioners (hereinafter Board) found him guilty of a number of charges. These charges arose from an incident that began in a Village of New Paltz bar on the night of March 26, 1975. The petitioner and another village police officer were being harassed in the bar by one Edward Van Horn. The police officers were off-duty but were armed with their service revolvers. Van Horn was armed with a knife...

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