Legal Opinion
People v. Rojas
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 29, 2001PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Bernstein, J.), rendered Feb*347ruary 2, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. The officers had, at the very least, reasonable suspicion to detain defendant pending a confirmatory viewing by the undercover officer. Defendant fit the description of the seller transmitted only moments before and was discovered in the very…
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