Case Name: In the Matter of Charles Dale, Jr., Appellant, v. Howard Safir, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2001-05-15
Citations: 283 A.D.2d 248
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Charles Dale, Jr., Appellant, v Howard Safir, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 283
Pages: 248–248

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Charles Dale, Jr., Appellant, v Howard Safir, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, Respondent.
[728 NYS2d 125]

Opinion:
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Diane Lebedeff, J.), entered June 26, 2000, which denied petitioner's application to annul respondent Police Commissioner's denial of petitioner's application for a premises pistol license with target endorsement, and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
We hold that there is a rational relationship between petitioner's 1993 acts of public lewdness at the age of 31, resulting in two arrests, a conviction and an order of protection, and the "good moral character" required by Penal Law § 400.00 (1) (b) for issuance of the target pistol license that petitioner seeks (cf., Matter of Hines v Kelly, 222 AD2d 277, lv denied 87 NY2d 810). Concur — Nardelli, J. P., Williams, Ellerin, Lerner and Saxe, JJ.