MATTER OF GARCIA v. COOMBE


233 A.D.2d 328 (1996)

649 N.Y.S.2d 724

In the Matter of Carlos Garcia, Respondent, v. Philip Coombe et al., Appellants

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

November 4, 1996


Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, the petition is denied, and the proceeding is dismissed.

During a May 28, 1991, prison uprising at Southport Correctional Facility, the petitioner held a correction officer hostage, keeping a metal leg restraint chain wrapped around the officer's neck and holding a sharpened metal shank against the officer's throat. The officer was stripped naked and handcuffed, and was bleeding from...

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