Legal Opinion
People v. Legette
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 17, 1997PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the People from an order of the County Court, Suffolk County (Corso, J.), dated March 29, 1996, which, after a hearing, granted those branches of the defendant’s omnibus motion which were to suppress physical evidence and statements made by him to law enforcement authorities.
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, and the motion is denied.
On April 11, 1995, at approximately 9:45 p.m., a Suffolk County police officer received an anonymous telephone tip that Derrick Legette and Steven McDaniels had gone to New York City to pick up cocaine and would be returning to Suffolk…
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