ALBANY – A private vehicle on a public street is a “public place” for purposes of New York’s Penal Law, a divided state Court of Appeals determined.
In a 5-2 ruling that the dissenters said runs counter to the plain language and the spirit of the 1977 law that decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana, the Court upheld the misdemeanor conviction of Samuel Jackson for being found with marijuana in his hand after his vehicle was pulled over in a 2008 traffic stop in Brooklyn.
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