PEOPLE v. RIOS


34 A.D.3d 375 (2006)

825 N.Y.S.2d 451

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. SANTIAGO RIOS, Appellant.

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

Decided November 30, 2006.


The court properly denied defendant's suppression motion. A highly experienced narcotics detective observed what he believed to be a drug transaction when he saw defendant, in a drug prone area, accept what appeared to be money from another man and then, in an exchange disguised as a handshake, furtively pass the man a small object. Defendant had also been looking up and down the block, and moving back and forth, which had attracted the detective's attention. Under these...

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