On October 23, 1971 at about 5:00 P.M. on a crowded sidewalk in midtown Manhattan, a uniformed police officer was attempting to serve a summons to a peddler who had set up a belt rack on the sidewalk opposite Bloomingdale's department store; the peddler, without benefit of license, was purveying his belts to the passing throng. The defendant, a passer-by, observing the incident, opined that...
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