Miami-Dade cops conviction in Dyma Loving arrest NBC 6 South Florida [Video]

An appeals court has reversed the conviction of a former Miami-Dade Police officer in the 2019 rough arrest of a woman that was caught on camera.

Alejandro Giraldo was found guilty by a jury in 2022 on battery and official misconduct charges in the March 5, 2019 arrest of Dyma Loving.

Giraldo was later sentenced to 364 days in jail, followed by 18 months of probation.

But in an opinion filed Wednesday by Florida’s Third District Court of Appeals, judges found the conviction should be reversed, noting that Giraldo “did not knowingly or intentionally falsify an official record or document,” related to the official misconduct charge.

“The trial court erred in denying Giraldo’s motions for judgment of acquittal. The State conceded at oral argument that if the motion for judgment of acquittal on the official misconduct count should have been granted, it should have not proceeded with the battery count, as the arrest would have been lawfully made,” …