People v. Braun

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Solomon, J., at suppression hearing, Martin Rettinger, J., at trial), rendered April 21, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the third degree and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of SVb to 7 years, unanimously reversed, on the law, the motion to suppress granted, and the indictment dismissed.

At 3:04 a.m. on May 2, 1997, an anonymous 911 caller reported that she had just witnessed a storefront burglary on Third Avenue near 32nd Street in Manhattan. The tipster, whose call was recorded, indicated…