PEOPLE v. DE JESUS


92 A.D.2d 521 (1983)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Melvin De Jesus, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

February 22, 1983


Here the suppression court found that "[g]iving weight to the officer's experience with handguns and his knowledge of the high incidence of robberies and other crimes involving handguns in this area, the court accepts and credits his testimony that he `reasonably suspected' that the outline of the object observed in the package was the butt of a gun." The officer had testified that the outline of the object in the package (a plastic bag) looked to him like the butt of a gun...

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