Ex-NYPD sergeant freed from jail while he appeals his conviction for deadly cooler throw

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NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York City police sergeant can stay out of jail while he appeals his manslaughter conviction for tossing a picnic cooler at a fleeing suspect who then crashed his motorized scooter and died, a judge ruled Friday. The decision by a state appellate court judge came a week after a lower-court judge sentenced Erik Duran to three to nine years in prison and sent him to jail immediately in the 2023 death of 30-year-old Eric Duprey. Judge Saliann Scarpulla, of the mid-level