PEOPLE v. DUNTON


270 A.D.2d 51 (2000)

703 N.Y.S.2d 484

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. NATHANIEL DUNTON, Appellant.

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

Decided March 9, 2000.


Defendant's suppression motion was properly denied. We see no reason to disturb the court's credibility determinations, which are supported by the record. The police officers' observations of defendant violently struggling with a woman and pulling her hair provided reasonable suspicion that defendant was committing or about to commit an assault against her, justifying the forcible detention of defendant at the scene. Reasonable suspicion, in these circumstances, did not require...

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