Legal Opinion
People v. Chestnut
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided July 10, 1979PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Sullivan, J.
At issue is the propriety of the denial of defendant’s motion to suppress physical evidence, and statements made by him contemporaneously with the seizure of a gun and at the station house after his arrest. Subsequent to the denial of his motion defendant entered a plea of guilty.
The following facts were adduced at the suppression hearing. On the evening of January 4, 1977, at 8:45 p.m. police officers Dieterich and Stryker, assigned to an anticrime unit, were in plainclothes in an unmarked taxi. Stryker was the operator. Driving south on West End Avenue, they…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Sibron v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Dunaway v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- People v. CantorNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
- People v. ReismanNew York Court of Appeals · 1971
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3Cited by4 opinions
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- People v. SmithAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1983
- People v. BoydAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1980
- People v. FernandezAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1982