MATTER OF VITIELLO v. MORGENTHAU


287 A.D.2d 356 (2001)

731 N.Y.S.2d 386

In the Matter of ANTHONY VITIELLO, Appellant, v. ROBERT MORGENTHAU, as District Attorney of New York County, Respondent.

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

Decided October 18, 2001.


Under the unique circumstances of this case, respondent sustained his burden (see, Matter of Mantica v New York State Dept. of Health, 94 N.Y.2d 58, 61) of demonstrating that petitioner was likely acting as the agent of another incarcerated felon whose own Freedom of Information Law request had been denied. The denial of petitioner's request was not improperly based on petitioner's motives (see, Matter of Daily Gazette Co. v City...

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