Overview
- Duran won release Friday when appellate judge Saliann Scarpulla set $300,000 bail and ordered him to surrender his passport during the appeal.
- Duran was sentenced April 9 to three to nine years after a February bench conviction for throwing a bystander's cooler at Eric Duprey, who crashed and died, marking the first on-duty prison sentence for an NYPD officer in at least two decades.
- He spent the past week at Rikers Island and is expected to remain home under the court’s conditions while his lawyers challenge the conviction.
- The New York Islanders promoted a QR code Tuesday at UBS Arena to raise money for Duran’s defense and pledged a quarter of a 50/50 raffle, drawing a rebuke from Duprey’s family as the team declined to comment.
- Police unions cite thousands of supporters and frame the case as punishing split-second decisions, while prosecutors said Duran tried to save an arrest, setting up an appeal that will test how courts judge on-duty uses of force caught on video.