People v. Johnson
Cases that cite this one
17 later published cases cite this decision.
- People v. Lopez (New York Supreme Court 2008)
- People v. Licastri (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1978)
- People v. Griffith (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1978)
- People v. James (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1978)
- People v. Plunkett (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1977)
- People v. Allende (N.Y. 1976)
- People v. De Bour (N.Y. 1976)
- People v. Puglisi (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1976)
- People v. Goings (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1976)
- People v. Bernard (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1976)
- People v. Washington (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1976)
- People v. Sanchez (N.Y. 1975)
- People v. Bating (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1975)
- People v. Derrick (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1975)
- People v. Tinsley (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1975)
- People v. Towers (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1975)
- People v. Grant (New York Supreme Court 1975)
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Opinion
The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v.
James Johnson, Also Known as Walter Brown, Appellant.
Court of Appeals of the State of New York.
G. Jeffrey Sorge, James J. McDonough and Matthew Muraskin for appellant.
William Cahn, District Attorney (Henry P. DeVine of counsel), for respondent.
Concur: Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, BREITEL, JASEN and GIBSON.
Order reversed and the information dismissed in the following memorandum: On the record before us, neither the stop nor the frisk of appellant was justified by reasonable suspicions on the part of the police. (Code Crim. Pro., § 180-a; Sibron v. New York, 392 U. S. 40; Terry v. Ohio, 392 U. S. 1.) Absent an articulable foundation for the entrenchment upon individual liberty and privacy which a stop and frisk entails, police suspicions remain merely "hunches" and are not reasonable within section 180-a of the Code of Criminal Procedure. (Cf. People v. Arthurs, 24 N Y 2d 688; People v. Taggart, 20 N Y 2d 335.) Accordingly, the conviction of appellant should be reversed and the information dismissed.
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