People v. Behrmann

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Torres, J., at hearing; David Stadtmauer, J., at nonjury trial and sentence), rendered November 27, 1996, convicting defendant of rape in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of 2½ to 7½ years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. Under the unique circumstances of this case, defendant’s proximity, with other men, to a naked woman who was screaming that she had been raped but was temporarily unable to communicate any other information rendered it reasonable for the police to take defendant and the other…