On October 27, 1971, three policemen were on the night shift (6:00 P.M. to 2:00 A.M.) of an anticrime patrol in an unmarked car and observed three late-model Cadillacs double-parked in front of an apartment house in upper Manhattan. At about 2:00 A.M. they observed three black men, one of whom was the defendant McCoy, leave the building and drive away in the Cadillacs. On October 28, before going on duty for the next evening, the officers were given a "condition slip." This...
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