Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court properly found that the plaintiff is collaterally estopped by his previous criminal conviction of assault in the second degree, resisting arrest, and driving while ability impaired, from now relitigating the lawfulness of that arrest and prosecution. Upon his conviction for resisting arrest, the jury necessarily decided that the arrest was authorized and premised on probable cause (see, People...
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