People v. Brown

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lawrence, J.), rendered March 25, 1982, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Slavin, J.), of that branch of defendant’s motion which was to suppress certain evidence.

Judgment reversed, on the law and the facts, motion to suppress granted in its entirety, and a new trial ordered.

At about 1:30 a.m. on June 23, 1980, undercover police officers observed a woman on the street in a…