Legal Opinion
People v. Leach
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 15, 2004PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J.), rendered February 20, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (three counts), and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of five years, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. The record supports the court’s finding that police questioning of defendant as to how to unload a pistol of a type that was unfamiliar to the recovering officer was justified under the safety exception to the requirement…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Allen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- New York v. QuarlesSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- People v. MalloyNew York Court of Appeals · 1982
- People v. OquendoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1999
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