Legal Opinion
People v. Sanchez
New York Supreme Court
Decided October 8, 1991PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
James G. Starkey, J.
On or about January 24, 1990, one Antoine Taylor was shot to death in this county with a nine millimeter handgun. The weapon used was not recovered for three days. Then, as the *432result of an apparently unrelated incident, it was located by the police in an automobile operated by the defendant.
The question presented here is whether information provided by unidentified citizen-informants to the effect that they had witnessed gunplay and that a loaded weapon was located in a described vehicle — when accompanied by other indicators of reliability of the…
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