People v. Santiago
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Sullivan, J.
This case brings before us once again the nettlesome problem of determining the limits of permissible police conduct in a street encounter.
At 9:30 p.m. on December 15, 1972 two police officers on duty in an anticrime assignment observed defendant Santiago standing alone on the corner of East 81st Street and Third Avenue. It was raining and the temperature was in the 30’s.* Santiago appeared to the officers to be watching customers coming in and out of a liquor store. The store was located about 10 feet away from where Santiago was standing. As the officers kept…
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