People v. Coker

—Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Allen Alpert, J.), rendered on October 1, 1986, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him to five years’ probation, is unanimously reversed on the law and the facts, the motion to suppress granted and the indictment dismissed.

At approximately 6:10 p.m. on January 13, 1986, Officer John Saager, wearing plain clothes and riding in an unmarked car, overheard a radio message derived from an anonymous tip concerning a "suspicious” black man wearing a beige coat…