Legal Opinion
People v. Ford
Criminal Court of the City of New York
Decided January 31, 1984PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Alan D. Marrus, J.
On October 6, 1983, at about 5:20 p.m., the defendant was observed at the Times Square subway station in Manhattan with what appeared to a police officer as a blackjack protruding from the defendant’s waistband. The police officer arrested the defendant and seized the item, which upon closer inspection turned out to be a black metal cylinder, about seven inches in length weighing less than a pound. With a flick of the wrist, a metal coil about 10 inches long is propelled out of the cylinder extending the length of the pipe to about 17 inches. At the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- People v. . McPhersonNew York Court of Appeals · 1917
- People v. BraunhutCriminal Court of the City of New York · 1979
- People v. SchoonmakerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1972
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