In our view the police did not exceed their authority in making inquiry of the defendant when they saw him coming out of an apartment house in a high crime area carrying a television set and immediately hail a gypsy cab and hurriedly enter. When he responded to the police officers' initial inquiry with what the police knew, of their own knowledge and observation, was a lie, they were entitled to take further action to hold him briefly until they could ascertain whether a...
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