Legal Opinion

People v. Waite

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided January 30, 1996Published

1Opinion of the Court

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Frederic Berman, J.), rendered January 19, 1993, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s motion to suppress was properly denied. The radioed descriptions of the two perpetrators were sufficiently detailed and specific, and the temporal and spatial proximity of defendant and his companion to the time and place of the reported robbery were sufficiently close, to justify a reasonable belief that defendant…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People v. CookAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992
  2. People v. WhiteAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992

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