NY court upholds arrest despite police mistake
ALBANY— New York’s top court has upheld a traffic stop and drunken driving arrest where a policeman made the mistake of pulling over a driver who ran an unauthorized stop sign at the edge of a supermarket parking lot.
The Court of Appeals, divided 6-1, reversed two lower courts. They had concluded the September 2009 stop of Rebecca Guthrie by a village police officer was unjustified because the sign wasn’t properly registered with the village of Newark in Wayne County.
They ruled that the subsequent evidence, including sobriety tests, should be suppressed and all charges dismissed.