People v. Oeller

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

This defendant’s appeal, allowed by permission of a dissenting Associate Justice of the Appellate Division, implicates the issue whether police officers reasonably believed that defendant had committed or was committing a crime, giving them the right to forcibly stop and detain him. The trial court and the Appellate Division denied defendant’s motion to suppress vials of crack cocaine which the police recovered from his hand and subsequently found in his coat pockets.

As with People v Madera (82 NY2d 775…