People v. Zurita

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered February 6, 1979, convicting him of reckless endangerment in the second degree and menacing, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed, on the law, and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice and new trial ordered. At about 12:30 a.m. on July 21, 1978, while driving an automobile belonging to one of his passengers, defendant stopped on Utopia Parkway and waited for a change of light at the corner of Northern Boulevard. Edward Harris, a police officer riding home on a motorcycle…