MAN ACQUITTED OF CAR ASSAULT VEHICLE JUMPED CURB, HIT PAIR ON SIDEWALK.(Local)

Byline: Carol DeMare Staff writer

An Albany County Court jury found an Albany man not guilty Friday of assault and other charges in connection with an incident last summer in Arbor Hill when a car jumped a curb injuring two persons.

Frederick J. Haluska, 23, whose last address was 155 Sheridan Ave., was acquitted after a weeklong trial before Judge Joseph Harris. Haluska's defense attorney, J. Lawrence Dolan had alleged throughout the case that Haluska was not the driver of the car.

Haluska was charged with two counts of second-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment and leaving the scene of a personal-injury accident, all felonies. …