People v. Tapling

Judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Fred W. Eggert, J.), rendered February 13, 1987, convicting him, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to an indeterminate prison term of 3 to 9 years, is unanimously affirmed.

The court, at the suppression hearing, properly found that school safety officers who observed a car slowly circling in the school parking lot, surrounded by a noisy crowd of students attempting to prevent its movement and complaining of the theft of a gold chain by the car’s passenger, had probable cause to detain the defendant (driver of the…