People v. Brown

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (George Daniels, J.), rendered March 24, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 7V2 to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. When the attention of the police was directed to defendant by a member of a crowd chasing him, the officers acquired reasonable suspicion of criminality justifying pursuit (see, People v Lopez, 258 AD2d 388). When defendant refused to stop when so instructed by the police and dropped a wallet that he had been…