People v. Cooper

I respectfully dissent. The only witness to testify at the hearing to determine whether a loaded shotgun seized from the defendant and statements made by him upon his arrest should be suppressed was the arresting officer, a six-year veteran of the police force, who had participated in over 50 weapons-related arrests.

The officer, assigned to an anticrime unit and patrolling with *48his partner in an unmarked police car, observed defendant and another male exiting a building located in a fairly high-crime area at 2:00 a.m. The defendant was walking with an “exaggerated” limp favoring a “stiff’…