Landow v. Town of Amherst

Memorandum: Plaintiff commenced this action seeking damages for false arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution resulting from his arrest and subsequent criminal prosecution for obstructing governmental administration in the second *1237degree (Penal Law § 195.05). As we noted in a prior appeal, Supreme Court conducted a nonjury trial, following which the court “expressly found defendant liable under the false arrest cause of action and implicitly found defendant liable under the false imprisonment cause of action as well, inasmuch as the court awarded plaintiff damages ‘for the…