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PEOPLE v. WALLACE

122 A.D.2d 238 (1986)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Theresa Wallace, Also Known as Diana Wallace, Appellant

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

July 21, 1986

Judgment affirmed.

Probable cause is not a necessary predicate for all contact between the police and the citizenry in the course of an investigation (People v Finlayson, 76 A.D.2d 670, lv denied 51 N.Y.2d 1011, cert denied 450 U.S. 931), and the police may intrude upon a citizen in a public place for the purpose of requesting information, so long as such intrusion is not arbitrary, based on whim, curiosity...

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