People v. Ray

OPINION OF THE COURT

Birns, J.

On this appeal defendant claims he was the subject of unlawful police detention, search and seizure, in violation of our State statutes (CPL 140.50 et seq.) and that his rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated. He seeks, on that basis, to suppress certain physical evidence and oral statements obtained from him by the police.

Shortly after midday on February 18, 1976, two police officers, Sergeant Mancuso and Patrolman San Filippo, on anticrime patrol in civilian clothes in the vicinity of a targeted high crime area, observed defendant and…