People v. Stephenson

Two police officers testified at the suppression hearing that they were in plain clothes in an unmarked police vehicle when they observed the defendant walking on a city street after midnight, adjusting a heavy object in his front waistband with his right hand. According to the officers’ testimony at the hearing, the heavy object appeared to be a firearm, based on its shape and the manner in which the defendant held it, which the officers explained was as if the defendant were holding the butt or handle of a firearm. The officers further testified that, at the time they observed the…