A woman arrested at gunpoint after she attempted to take a bag left in an unlocked “bait car” has had her case thrown out by a Bronx judge who castigated police for going to great lengths to trap “a hard-working, family-oriented woman with an otherwise unblemished record.”
“To deny dismissal in this case, where, instead of using their time to fight the significant amount of serious crime in the county, the police went through elaborate lengths, involving the use of a car and several officers, to contrive this scenario to lure, bait and trap a law-abiding person into taking property, and then to draw their guns on a crowded public street to arrest her, and then to require her to come back to court for almost three years to fight the charges would greatly damage the confidence and trust of the public in the fairness and effectiveness of the criminal justice system, and rightly so,” Bronx Criminal Court Judge Linda Poust Lopez wrote on Jan. 24 in granting the defendant’s motion to dismiss in People v. Myers, 2010BX04905.
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