Defendant was indicted on a single charge of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, based upon the seizure of a loaded .38 caliber gun on his person. The sole issue on this appeal is the propriety of that search.
At 9:24 A.M. on August 5, 1983, the police received an anonymous telephone call from a person saying that he was at 219 Edgecombe Avenue. He stated that a short, black, Jamaican man, wearing a tan leisure suit, had taken a gun out of a case...
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