People v. Petteway

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edwin Torres, J.), rendered October 9, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. Even assuming that the officer’s act of placing his hand on defendant’s shoulder constituted a seizure, we conclude that it was supported by the requisite reasonable suspicion. The victim of a chain-snatching described her attacker as a very dark-skinned…