Legal Opinion
People v. Gaines
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided August 2, 1990PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Ellerin, J.
Defendant’s conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree arises out of an arrest following an anonymous tip. The police testimony at the combined Mapp/Huntley hearing established that at 12:45 a.m. on January 25, 1986, two pairs of anticrime police officers, in plain clothes and unmarked cars, received a radio report, based on an anonymous source, that a man with a sawed-off shotgun was selling crack on the sidewalk in front of 51 East 129th Street. The report stated that the shotgun and the drugs were in a brown paper shopping bag inside,…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- People v. De BourNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
- People v. BenjaminNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
- People v. SalamanNew York Court of Appeals · 1988
- People v. BondAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1986
3Cited by11 opinions
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- People v. AndrewsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
- People v. TuckerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994
- People v. RodriguezAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
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