People v. Green

We conclude that the facts disclosed in this record were such as to warrant a persoji of reasonable caution in believing that a frisk of defendant’s person-was appropriate (People v. Moore, 32 N Y 2d 67, 69; Terry v. Ohio, 392 U. S. 1, 21-22). This being so the motion to suppress the gun discovered in the course of the frisk was properly denied. The proper determination in cases of this sort must necessarily turn on the facts in each individual case.

At 8 o ’clock in the evening a teenager previously unknown to him approached Patrolman Anderson on 143rd Street between Seventh and Eighth…