PEOPLE v. ALLEN


73 N.Y.2d 378 (1989)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Clementin Allen, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 4, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephanie T. Knowles and Philip L. Weinstein for appellant.

Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney (Billie Manning of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA concur in Per Curiam opinion; Judge TITONE concurs in a separate opinion.


Per Curiam.

Three plain-clothes police officers, while on anticrime patrol in The Bronx, received a radio report of an armed robbery in progress at a nearby address. The report described the perpetrators as four black males armed with two guns apiece. Just moments after receiving this information and as the officers were approaching the crime scene, they spotted the defendant and three other black males running away from...

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