Legal Opinion
People v. Nelson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 12, 2009PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berk-man, J., at hearing; James A. Yates, J., at plea and sentence), rendered January 8, 2009, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of six years, unanimously affirmed.
*487The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. Police officers lawfully stopped a livery cab on the basis of traffic violations. This entitled them to order defendant, a passenger, out of the cab even without any particularized suspicion (see Pennsylvania v Mimms,…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Pennsylvania v. MimmsSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- People v. BenjaminNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
- People v. RobinsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1989
- People v. HensenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2005
- People v. AllenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2007
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