People v. Powell

OPINION OF THE COURT

Phylis Skloot Bamberger, J.

The defendant is charged with two counts of criminal possession of a narcotic substance in the third degree. A pretrial hearing was held on a motion to suppress a bag containing narcotics. The issue raised at the hearing was whether police officers can properly pursue a person who enters and then leaves the courtyard of a building whose managing agent has signed on to the Police Department’s “Operation Clean Halls.”1 Sergeant John Gilcher was the only witness at the hearing. He testified about events he observed and about what other officers told…