Another New York City judge has dismissed charges against a motorist over violating a city law that imposes criminal penalties for striking pedestrians, further deepening a lack of consensus among judges as to the measure’s constitutionality.
Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge Joy Campanelli’s decision to dismiss a charge against a man who struck an elderly couple with his car of violating the city’s Right of Way law, enacted as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Vision Zero initiative to eliminate pedestrian death, was the second this year to find that the law violated the defendant’s Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
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