Opinion
570303/09.
Decided February 25, 2011.
Defendant appeals from a judgment of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, New York County (Kevin McGrath, J.), rendered January 27, 2009, convicting him, upon his plea of guilty, of resisting arrest, and imposing sentence.
Judgment of conviction (Kevin McGrath, J.), rendered January 27, 2009, reversed, on the law, and the accusatory instrument dismissed.
PRESENT: Schoenfeld, J.P., Shulman, Torres, JJ.
The allegations in the accusatory instrument charging defendant with disorderly conduct — which the People correctly conceded were unclear — failed to allege "facts of an evidentiary character supporting or tending to support" (Criminal Procedure Law § 100.15), the requisite intent to cause "public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm" (Penal Law § 240.20; see People v Massey, 29 Misc 3d 143[A],2010 NY Slip Op 52211[U] [2010]). Moreover, the accusatory instrument failed to establish reasonable cause to believe that defendant committed the offense of disorderly conduct ( see generally People v Kalin , 12 NY3d 225 , 229).
A key element of resisting arrest is the existence of "an authorized arrest" (Penal Law § 205.30; see People v Jensen, 86 NY2d 248, 253). Since the accusatory instrument failed to demonstrate a basis for defendant's arrest, the arrest was not authorized, and the allegations charging him with resisting arrest were therefore legally insufficient ( see People v Peacock, 68 NY2d 675, 676-677; People v Parker, 33 NY2d 669, 670).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE COURT.
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