MATTER OF DILLON v. COUGHLIN


143 Misc.2d 207 (1989)

In the Matter of Denis Dillon, Petitioner, v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court, Albany County.

March 30, 1989


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Denis Dillon, District Attorney (George Freed of counsel), petitioner pro se. Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Lawrence L. Doolittle of counsel), for Thomas A. Coughlin and another, respondents. Axelrod, Cornachio & Famighetti for Kevin Flaherty, respondent.


WILLIAM H. KENIRY, J.

This is an emotionally charged CPLR article 78 proceeding which has its genesis in a tragic incident in which two young pedestrians, Stacy Levitan and Paul Ciancarelli, were killed when a motor vehicle operated by Kevin Flaherty struck them. Flaherty was drunk. The accident occurred in Nassau County. Flaherty, in response to the filing against him of a superior court information, entered a guilty plea in Nassau County Court to two...

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