People v. Cherry
New York Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the CourtFuld, J.
Defendant, a plumber by trade, doing absolutely nothing improper, doing nothing, indeed, even to excite suspicion, was accosted and seized by two strangers, in ordinary street attire, claiming to be police officers, late at night as he was about to enter his home. "What citizen would do less, if resistance, concededly permissible, was to be effective, than defendant did in this case? He used no artificial or man-made weapon of any sort, relying solely on those supplied by nature, his hands and his teeth.
The police officers were, as everyone acknowledges, guilty of an illegal arrest and an…
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