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People v Maxwell (2024 NY Slip Op 50197(U))

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People v Maxwell (Margaret)

2024 NY Slip Op 50197(U)

Decided on February 8, 2024

Appellate Term, Second Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

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Decided on February 8, 2024
SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, SECOND DEPARTMENT, 9th and 10th JUDICIAL DISTRICTS
PRESENT: : JERRY GARGUILO, P.J., JAMES P. McCORMACK, GRETCHEN WALSH, JJ

2023-317 S C

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
againstMargaret Maxwell, Appellant. 

Thomas V. Maxwell, for appellant.
Suffolk County Traffic Prosecutor's Office, for respondent (no brief filed).

Appeal from a judgment of the District Court of Suffolk County, Suffolk County Traffic and Parking Violations Agency (Kenneth Diamond, J.H.O.), entered November 7, 2022. The judgment, after a nonjury trial, imposed a $275 civil liability upon defendant as the owner of a vehicle which had failed to stop for a stopped school bus.
ORDERED that the judgment is reversed, without costs, and the notice of liability is dismissed.
Defendant was served with a notice of liability pursuant to Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1174-a. The notice states that a vehicle owned by defendant failed to stop for a stopped school bus on March 29, 2022 at 300 Block of Deer Park Avenue in Dix Hills, New York. At a nonjury trial, the video depicting the violation was reviewed by the court. The court found defendant liable and a judgment was entered imposing a $275 civil liability. 
Defendant appeals and the People consent to a reversal in light of this court's decision in People v Croce (— Misc 3d —, 2023 NY Slip Op 23399 [App Term, 2d Dept, 9th & 10th Jud Dists 2023]).
For the reasons stated in People v Croce (id.), the judgment is reversed and the notice of liability is dismissed.
GARGUILO, P.J., McCORMACK and WALSH, JJ., concur.
ENTER:Paul KennyChief ClerkDecision Date: February 8, 2024