Unanimously reversed, on the law, and the indictment dismissed.
The information relied on by the police to justify the arrest and search of defendant-appellant was derived from observation by a police officer through binoculars at 9:30 P.M. after dark, of activity on the side of a car opposite that faced by the observer, at a distance said to have been 500 feet, of the passage of pieces of tinfoil from the driver to defendant in return for pieces of green paper. The...
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