People v. Vassallo

by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered April 4, 1974, convicting him of unlawful possession and transportation, for the purpose of sale, of unstamped and unlawfully stamped cigarettes, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review a decision of the same court, rendered Hovember 23, 1973, which denied defendant’s motion to suppress evidence seized from a truck. Judgment reversed, on the law and the facts, and indictment dismissed. On January 17, 1973, at approximately 8:00 p.m., two plainclothes patrolmen on routine patrol…