98 Misc. 2d 505 - Wassef v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
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cited by 4 later decisions
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February 2008
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“The Court must comment that the inclusion of indemnification for the successful defense of certain criminal matters within Public Officers Law, Section 17 should be carefully studied by the Legislature. The Court can foresee certain areas of State employment which may be unusually prone to the receipt of frivolous and unfounded complaints against employees, to their superiors or to the other governmental agencies. These might be by members of the public, co-employees or even by local law enforcement officers. When or if these are reduced to criminal charges, the employee may be required to expend large sums of money for defense of the same, irrespective of their merits. To require the employee, upon successfully defending an unfounded criminal charge to seek redress solely by suing the complainant for malicious prosecution could surely be an undue burden. Without passing on the merits of the fact pattern contained in the claim at bar, the Court urges that certain such situations within the scope of employment could and should be included within the statutory provisions.”
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