Schwartzman v. New York

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• noting that an acquittal represents a termination of judicial proceedings for purposes of a malicious prosecution claim
• claim of malicious prosecution on charge of resisting arrest, of which plaintiff was acquitted, was not barred by his conviction of disorderly conduct
• “When a termination is indecisive because it does not address the merits of the charge, the facts surrounding the termination must be examined to determine whether the failure to proceed implies a lack of reasonable grounds for the prosecution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).