An appeals court dismissed a drunken driving conviction against a man who police said they seized on a Bronx street because they thought he had just been the victim of a crime.
The Appellate Division, First Department, panel unanimously held in People v. Coronado, 2016 NY Slip Op 03601, that the circumstances of Leonardo Coronado’s arrest failed to show that officers had the requisite probable cause to make the stop, by grabbing him on the shoulder and preventing him from moving away.
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