People v. Thomas
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Friedman, J.
Under the four-tiered analysis of police-civilian encounters first propounded by the Court of Appeals in People v De Bour (40 NY2d 210, 223 [1976]), a level I “request for information”— the least intrusive level of police inquiry—is justified by an “objective, credible reason not necessarily indicative of criminality” (People v Ocasio, 85 NY2d 982, 985 [1995], citing People v Hollman, 79 NY2d 181, 187, 194 [1992]). The question presented by this appeal is whether the parking of a car beside a fire hydrant provides a police officer with an “objective, credible…
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