People v. Hutchinson

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

The defendant and his companion were first seen by the police running into a busy intersection and frantically waving their arms and jumping in front of vehicles to stop either a passing car or taxicab. The police observed that the two men kept looking back towards the area they came from as they attempted to stop the cars. They soon succeeded in hailing a "gypsy” cab.

The officers had reason to suspect that the defendant and his companion were either victims or perpetrators of a recently committed crime by…