People v. Williams
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Sullivan, J.
We are asked to determine the propriety of a stop and frisk based upon the observation of a coat pocket bulge. Trial Term, after a hearing at which Police Officer Thomas Saville and defendant were the only witnesses, denied suppression.
On November 25,1973, a Saturday night, Officer Saville, with two other officers, was assigned to an anticrime unit. At about 9:30 that evening the three officers, in plain *148clothes and in an unmarked police van, were stopped on Pleasant Avenue near the northeast corner of 120th Street, from where they observed a 1974 Lincoln…
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