People v. Graham
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Sullivan, J. P.
This appeal presents the issue of whether the observation by an experienced police officer, in a “drug-prone” location, of five separate transactions in each of which defendant exchanged money for a small object he removed from a brown paper bag and thereafter placed the bag on the ground next to a fence about 10 feet away, gives rise to probable cause.
The following facts were testified to at the suppression hearing, at which the People presented the only witness. On April 23, 1992, shortly before 2:00 p.m., Police Officers Smith and McDonald, uniformed and…
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