People v. Ahearn

Appeal by the People from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated April 12, 1977, which, after a hearing, granted defendant’s motion to suppress a gun and credit card seized from him. Order reversed, on the law and the facts, and motion denied. On January 11, 1976, at about 8:45 p.m., shortly after snow had started falling, Officer John Crean, a veteran of 8 Vi years with the New York City Police Department (and the only witness to testify at the suppression hearing), was driving his *765patrol car eastbound on Broadway at about 46th Street, Queens, when he observed…