Brief of the Legal Aid Society, Bronx Defenders, Brooklyn Defender Services, Community Service Society of New York, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at New York University School of Law, Center on Race, Law and Justice at Fordham University Law School, Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice, and Brooklyn Community Bail Fund in Support of Plaintiff-Appellant

Authors

Zohra Ahmed, Boston University School of LawFollow
Cynthia Conti-Cook

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Brief

Publication Date

5-14-2018

Publisher

New York Supreme Court Appellate Division—First Department

Language

en-US

Abstract

In upholding the constitutionality of the officers’ prolonged detention of Mr. Vargas, the lower court inaccurately assumed that Mr. Vargas was labeled a “transit recidivist” by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a result of either an open warrant or a prior conviction.3 The amici submit this brief to correct this misconception.4 The NYPD actually labels New York subway riders “transit recidivist” based on a much broader, constitutionally compromised database that includes prior arrests and summons that have been dismissed, declined prosecution or otherwise terminated in favor of the accused.

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Recommended Citation

Zohra Ahmed & Cynthia Conti-Cook, Brief of the Legal Aid Society, Bronx Defenders, Brooklyn Defender Services, Community Service Society of New York, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at New York University School of Law, Center on Race, Law and Justice at Fordham University Law School, Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice, and Brooklyn Community Bail Fund in Support of Plaintiff-Appellant (2018).
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