A lawyer who was arrested in a Queens courtroom after calling a court officer an obscene name has successfully sued New York state for false arrest. Solo practitioner Joseph A. DePaula and court officer Charles Rey agree that Rey confiscated DePaula's phone and that DePaula used an expletive in referring to Rey -- but beyond that, their recollections of the incident diverge.
July 24, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A lawyer who was arrested in a Queens courtroom after calling a court officer an obscene name has successfully sued New York state for false arrest.
The underlying incident took place in the courtroom of now-retired Queens Civil Court Judge Steven Gottlieb on Sept. 30, 2005.
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