Matter of Wright v State of New York (2016 NY Slip Op 07434)

Matter of Wright v State of New York

2016 NY Slip Op 07434 [144 AD3d 1514]

November 10, 2016

Appellate Division, Fourth Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

As corrected through Wednesday, January 4, 2017

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In the Matter of Myron Wright, Consecutive No. 16906, for Discharge from Central New York Psychiatric Center Pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law § 10.09, Respondent,
v
State of New York et al., Appellants.

Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Kathleen M. Treasure of counsel), for respondents-appellants.

Emmett J. Creahan, Director, Mental Hygiene Legal Service, Utica (Michael H. McCormick of counsel), for petitioner-respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Oneida County (Louis P. Gigliotti, A.J.), entered March 1, 2016 in a proceeding pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law article 10. The order, among other things, directed the discharge of petitioner from the custody of the New York State Office of Mental Health.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs. Present—Smith, J.P., Carni, Lindley, DeJoseph and Scudder, JJ.