People v. McNeil

Appeal from a judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, rendered May 30, 1975, convicting defendant of possession of a weapon as a felony, unanimously held in abeyance and the matter remanded for a hearing on defendant’s motion to suppress (CPL 710.60, subd 4). On this appeal, defendant claims that the police lacked probable cause for the arrest and subsequent search and that the court erred in summarily denying his pretrial motion to suppress without a hearing on the prosecutor’s representation that the police officers responded to complainant’s cry that he had just been the victim of a…