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THE RELIABILITY OF THE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT WAS NOT ADEQUATELY CONSIDERED BY THE HEARING OFFICER, DETERMINATION ANNULLED AND EXPUNGED (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, annulling the determination and expunging the record, found that the hearing officer had not adequately considered the reliability of the confidential informant:

… [W]e find that the Hearing Officer’s inquiry was not thorough and specific enough to afford him an adequate opportunity to assess the confidential informant’s knowledge and reliability. After briefly reviewing the investigating officer’s professional experience, the Hearing Officer, in a cursory fashion, confirmed that the investigating officer had obtained confidential information and then asked whether that information was received under any kind of duress or the product of coercion, whether he thought the information was reliable and credible and whether there was any promise of secondary gain. Nothing further was solicited from the investigating officer, who provided only two or three-word responses to each question and failed to offer any description of the confidential source’s statements or further testimony to assist the Hearing Officer’s inquiry into the reliability of the confidential information … . In addition, the investigating officer failed to explain why he found the confidential informant reliable … . Indeed, “[t]he Hearing Officer may not base his or her conclusion solely upon the correction officer’s assessment of the confidential informant’s truthfulness” … . The record also does not reflect that the Hearing Officer attempted to personally interview the confidential informant in order to cure these deficiencies … . Matter of Barber v Annucci, 2019 NY Slip Op 07831, Third Dept 10-31-19

 

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