Legal Opinion
People v. Bora
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 3, 1994PublishedCited by 147 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Simons, J.
The sole issue presented on this appeal is whether a direction by a uniformed police officer to "stop”, made to defendant as he began to walk away from the officer on a street corner, constituted a "seizure” as a matter of law.
I
On June 1, 1989, Police Officer Stuller and his partner received a radio report that a black male, wearing red and blue clothing, was selling narcotics on the corner of 148th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan. The officers proceeded to the corner, arriving within one minute, where they observed approximately 10 people, including…
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