PEOPLE v. CASTRO


68 N.Y.2d 850 (1986)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jose Castro, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 14, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy Feldman and Philip L. Weinstein for appellant.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney (Ralph Fabrizio and Joyce P. Adolfsen of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR., concur.


MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendant argues on this appeal that the police acted unreasonably in conducting a pat-down search based on a tip supplied by an informant during a face-to-face encounter with police that defendant had a gun and said that he intended to "rip off a `queen'".

Resolution of this question turns primarily on an assessment of the credibility of...

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