Legal Opinion

People v. Soto

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided April 15, 1999PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Tonetti, J., at suppression hearing; David Stadtmauer, J., at plea and sentence), rendered April 2, 1997, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. The radioed description, including height, weight and colors of clothing, was sufficiently specific given the close temporal and spatial proximity of the drug sale to the arrest, and the arresting officer’s testimony was…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People v. MartinezAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
  2. People v. VinnianeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. People v. SerranoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2005
  2. People v. LewisAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2007
  3. People v. PrattAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2007

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