A Kalamazoo man fled from officers. The state Supreme Court said he had the right to.

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The Michigan Hall of Justice, home of the state Supreme Court, in downtown Lansing, Mich., on Oct. 24, 2022.Ben Orner | MLive.com

The Michigan Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of man found guilty of fleeing from Kalamazoo police and assaulting, resisting, or obstructing a police officer, saying police didn’t have sufficient reason to detain him in the first place.

Kalamazoo police officers approached Douglas Prude on May 30, 2019, as he was sitting alone in his car with the engine off in the parking lot of Fox Ridge Apartments, a complex that police patrolled regularly because of frequent reports of criminal activity, according to court documents.

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