Judgment unanimously reversed on the law, defendant's motion to suppress granted and indictment dismissed.
Memorandum:
County Court should have suppressed the burglar's tools seized from defendant following a frisk and the confession given by defendant after his arrest.
At 12:30 A.M., an hour before the frisk, a police officer observed defendant walking down the street, in an area where numerous burglaries had occurred, carrying a three-foot-long object...
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