PEOPLE v. PRUITT


181 A.D.2d 748 (1992)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Robert Pruitt, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

March 9, 1992


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We agree with the hearing court that the police officers, who were in the midst of securing a building to carry out the arrest of a suspect in the murder of a police officer, justifiably told the defendant to stop as he ran up a flight of stairs towards them (see, People v De Bour, 40 N.Y.2d 210, 223). Under these circumstances, the...

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