People v. Manners

Appeal by the People from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County, entered July 26, 1974, which granted a motion to suppress physical evidence. Order reversed, on the law and the facts, and motion denied. On November 27, 1973, at approximately 9:30 p.m., two New York City patrolmen observed an automobile containing four occupants stopped for a traffic light at the corner of Utica Avenue and Union Street in the Borough of Brooklyn, New York. Acting on the basis of what they believed to be two or three bullet holes in the windshield, the officers halted the vehicle and demanded of its…