People v. Hendricks

*362Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles J. Tejada, J., at hearing; William A. Wetzel, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered March 28, 2005, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him as a second felony offender to a determinate term of 21k years in prison and two years of postrelease supervision, unanimously reversed, on the law, the motion to suppress granted and the indictment dismissed.

This case involves an arrest and search as a result of an encounter during a “vertical patrol,” where police officers are on…