City and county authorities did not violate the constitutional rights of a man who died of exposure after fleeing officers who were seeking to arrest him for leaving the scene of a traffic accident, a judge ruled.

Western District Judge Charles Siragusa said that neither the Fourth nor Fourteenth amendment rights of Joshua Harrison were violated by the way Corning police and Schuyler County sheriff’s deputies pursued him following a traffic accident on the night of Feb. 5, 2015.

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