In re Gissette Angela P.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, without costs. The certified question should not be answered as unnecessary.

The courts below determined that a police officer possessed a founded suspicion that criminal activity was afoot sufficient to sanction the common-law inquiry into the contents of a bulge under appellant’s coat and that appellant voluntarily consented to open her coat, thereby revealing a plastic bag containing cocaine. These determinations involve mixed questions of law and fact, and because there is evidence in the record to…