| People v Price (Kelly) |
| 2016 NY Slip Op 50231(U) [50 Misc 3d 144(A)] |
| Decided on February 25, 2016 |
| Appellate Term, First Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports. |
Defendant appeals from a judgment of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, New York County (Robert M. Mandelbaum, J.), rendered October 18, 2012, convicting him, after a nonjury trial, of two counts of disorderly conduct, and imposing sentence.
Per Curiam.
Judgment of conviction (Robert M. Mandelbaum, J.), rendered October 18, 2012, reversed, on the law and the facts, and the accusatory instrument is dismissed.
The verdict convicting defendant of two counts of disorderly conduct (see Penal Law §§ 240.20[2], [3]), was not based on legally sufficient evidence and was, in any event, against the weight of the evidence. The trial evidence showed that defendant called police after she was asked to leave a midtown Manhattan bar on a Saturday evening; the responding officers observed defendant to be visibly upset and they tried to calm her down; upon interviewing people inside the bar, the officers informed defendant that there was no action that they could take on her behalf; defendant was angry, but walked away from the scene; and that as defendant was approximately 20 feet away from the officers, she turned her head and shouted an epithet at them. On these facts, defendant's intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, or recklessness in creating such a risk, was not established beyond a reasonable doubt (see Penal Law § 240.20 People v Baker, 20 NY3d 354 [2013]). Defendant's conduct did not indicate an intent to breach the peace, or even constitute an act from which a breach of the peace was likely to occur (see People v Johnson, 22 NY3d 1162 [2014]; People v Baker, supra; People v Pritchard, 27 NY2d 246 [1970]; People v Smith, 19 NY2d 212 [1967]).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE COURT.
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