New York State's highest court has sided with the Suffolk County District Attorney's office on a legal issue that prevented it, in 2022, from prosecuting a Suffolk teenager on misdemeanor charges after he allegedly got drunk, got stuck in a toddler's swing and then tried to escape in a police car.

In a 5 to 2 decision, the New York Court of Appeals affirmed the reinstatement of criminal charges against Henry Fuentes, whose case was dismissed after the prosecution was cited for not disclosing the arresting officer's Internal Affairs file to Fuentes' defense in a timely fashion.

In ruling for the Suffolk DA's office, the court said prosecutors had not turned over the records under the state's pretrial court discovery rules, which were amended in recent years. But the court rejected the def

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