People v. Dickerson
Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (George Covington, J.), rendered September 14, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 10 years to life, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. There was reasonable suspicion justifying the detention and frisk of defendant, based on a radio run concerning a man with a gun in a specific restaurant, along with the officers’ observations (see, People v Garner, 196 AD2d 727). Although the radio run’s description of the gun possessor lacked specificity, the officers
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