People v. Cortes

The principal issue on this motion is whether a police officer may briefly detain a person on the basis of information that another officer seeks to question the person about a recent homicide. The arresting officer in the present case received such information about two of the defendants and undertook to detain them. His actions resulted in the discovery of a loaded revolver on the floor of a vehicle in which all four defendants had been sitting. Indicted for criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (Penal Law, § 265.02, subd [4]; § 265.15, subd 3), the defendants seek suppression…