PEOPLE v. BECOATE


59 A.D.3d 345 (2009)

873 N.Y.S.2d 624

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JOHANN BECOATE, Appellant.

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

Decided February 26, 2009.


The court properly denied defendant's suppression motion. It is undisputed that, based on information that defendant may have been selling drugs, the police had at least a founded suspicion of criminality that entitled them to make a commonlaw inquiry. The record supports the court's finding that the police did not exceed the proper scope of such an inquiry. It was permissible for the officers, who did not draw their weapons, to approach defendant, follow him across a street...

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