PEOPLE v. DOWNES


259 A.D.2d 424 (1999)

687 N.Y.S.2d 138

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. ROGER DOWNES, Also Known as RONALD RASHAW, Appellant.

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

Decided March 25, 1999.


Defendant's suppression motion was properly denied. Late at night the police observed that a liquor store had been burglarized, whereupon a man ran into the street saying, "the van, the van" and pointed down the street. After ascertaining from the man that the van was brown, the officers drove in the direction the man had indicated, and, within seconds, observed only one brown van, which was operated by defendant. After defendant pulled the van over at the officers' direction...

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