MEMORANDUM.
Judgment unanimously reversed, on the law, and new trial ordered.
Defendant was charged with obstructing governmental administration for attempting to free his brother from a police car after his brother had been arrested. At trial, defendant requested a jury instruction to the effect that he could not be convicted unless the jury found that the arrest of his brother was authorized. Such an instruction was not given.
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