People v. Conway

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Troy Webber, J.), rendered July 3, 2001, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of assault in the third degree and sentencing him to 150 hours of community service and a $1,000 fine, reversed, on the law, and the indictment dismissed.

Defendant Conway was an experienced uniformed police officer on anticrime street patrol, driving an unmarked patrol car with two other uniformed officers when they observed complainant Dantae Johnson walking with Kyle Thompson. The two individuals matched a brief description of armed perpetrators of a robbery that had…