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PEOPLE v. JOHNSON

2010-02026.

89 A.D.3d 749 (2011)

931 N.Y.S.2d 896

2011 NY Slip Op 7859

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. MERCIFUL JOHNSON, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided November 1, 2011.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Under the fellow officer rule, if an arresting officer lacks personal knowledge sufficient to establish probable cause, the arrest will be lawful if the officer acts as a result of communication with a fellow officer, provided that the police as a whole were in possession of information sufficient to constitute probable cause to make an arrest (see People v Ramirez-Portoreal, 88 N.Y.2d 99

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