NYPD Sgt Out on Appeal
The sergeant with the "cooler conviction" was granted what the courts have given to every actual criminal - the ability to be free while appealing:
NEW YORK CITY - The former New York City police sergeant sentenced to three to nine years in prison for tossing a picnic cooler full of drinks at a fleeing suspect, who then crashed his motorized scooter and died, has been granted bail pending appeal. That's according to attorney Arthur Aidala.
Judge Saliann Scarpulla, of the mid-level Appellate Division, ordered Erik Duran freed on $300,000 cash or bond and said he must surrender his passport to his lawyers, who will keep it until his appeal is over.
"This is a major win for Erik and his family and for law enforcement officers around the country," said Vincent Vallelong, the president of Duran’s union, the Sergeants Benevolent Association.
There was absolutely ZERO intent to cause death or bodily harm - the criminal was driving a motorbike down a crowded sidewalk while attempting to escape, endangering many people. If he was running and got tackled or tripped into a tree, we doubt this would have even been an issue.
Why a bench trial was chosen in lib-tarded New York, where the judge's anti-police bias would play an oversized role is still a head-scratcher.
Labels: good news, out-of-state
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
22 Comments:
Shout out to the New York Rangers. At one of the last games of the season they posted on their Jumbotron a massive QR code for fans to donate to the Sarge’s legal fund. With full support by the owners of the Rangers and with the help of the Sgt’s union this was organized. Pretty stand up thing to do for a liberal ass city. Guess the Rangers really know who their base is 😝.
The democrats ruined the police industry.
Did society a favor and hope he wins
It's time to either retire or out right quit blue city police departments!
Democrats just want to put police officers in jail for any reason!
Damned if-in ya do...damned if-in ya don't.
Good. I hope he wins on appeal. If he was an non police defendant, he would be found not guilty
May have been the best choice. Look what jury of their peers means in that hell hole.
So they made him fork over 300k and his passport when others commit intended acts and they're left to flee the country? Crazy but thrilled he's out. What a travesty.
Would you trust a New York jury? Sounds like a lose-lose Catch-22 either way.
Of course a jury trial, loaded with blue voting libtards would not have been a much better scenario. Best of luck Sgt!!!
NY jury acquitted Daniel Penny. New Yorkers getting fed up and you only need one our of twelve
There are not enough normal people left in NYC to have a jury trial.
Blue city hell-holes. Can only get worse there with the likes of Mandami being propped up by the likes of Obama. Who then goes off to his multi-million dollar enclave, surrounded by his Secret Service Armed Officers. WTF!
That's why you don't do shit in a blue shithole city, all this shit he is getting and money he is losing and for what, some shithead running after a bullshit drug deal, some guys just never wanna believe policing is OVER in blue shitholes
I might be mistaken, I often am, but the NYPD Sgt. opted for a bench trial didn’t he? I believe what he is now appealing is the unjustly harsh sentence the judge imposed “…to send a message to other law enforcement officers who might be considering similar actions in the future.” Allegedly in the state of New Insanity (via New York) such an appeal does not have a likelihood of being overturned supposedly because the appeals court judges do not want to be seen as second guessing the lower court judges. I think every law abiding citizen would agree that the Sgt.’s decision and actions were justified, reasonable in the split second available to stop a fleeing suspect. If this same scenario played out in any random city without a Soros funded prosecutor, this Sgt. is at best riding a desk until cleared by a shrink from his PTSD after watching another citizen make a bad decision on his watch.
bench trial. Ah@le judge convicted the Sgt.
That’s the problem in blue states. The judges and jurors are all likely assholes. Only way to avoid this is to leave.
I believe it was the Islanders - they play in the suburbs, on Long Island. No fear of the NYC lefties. CC, JSM
I think the POS keeping throttle wide open trying to escape had way more to do with his death than the cooler.
It was the New York Islanders that did that . Learn the difference.
Cooler heads have prevailed
I seriously snorted I laughed so hard at this.
I see what you did there…
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