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  • Judge, Citing Extreme Facts, Tosses Arrest of NYC Professor

    01/18/2014 8:15:46 AM PST · by Behind Liberal Lines · 113 replies
    New York Law Journal ^ | 1//21/14 | Joel Stashenko
    Unnerved by a chaotic scene that involved a bolting dog, a sick husband and an aggressive police officer who ignored her pleas, it was "hardly surprising" that Suzanne LaFont tried to physically stop the officer from handcuffing her husband, Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Steven Statsinger said.... For 30 to 60 seconds on April 11, 2013, the judge noted, LaFont tried to pull on the arm and shoulder of Officer Anthony Giambra to stop him from restraining her ill husband, Karl Peltomaa, outside their apartment on West 83rd Street.... According to the ruling and LaFont's papers, her husband had only been...