People v. Burks

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Allen Alpert, J., at hearing; Frederic Berman, J., at plea and sentence), rendered August 2, 1995, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of auto stripping in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. The of*374ficers had a reasonable basis for frisking defendant because they reasonably suspected defendant of committing a crime involving potentially dangerous instruments (People v Moore, 32 NY2d 67, 72, cert denied 414 US…