People v. Bowden

Tom, J.E, and Freedman, J.,

dissent in a memorandum by Tom, J.E, as follows: Supreme Court properly suppressed a handgun and ammunition recovered from a bag defendant Latisha Bowden dropped upon being detained at gunpoint by police. While her activities provided a founded suspicion that criminality was afoot so as to warrant the exercise of the common-law right to inquire, they fell short of providing the reasonable suspicion that defendant was committing or about to commit a crime necessary to support a forcible stop and detention that might have justified the warrantless search of her…