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People v. Brown
22 A.D.3d 349
| N.Y. App. Div. | 2005
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Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Martin Marcus, J.), rendered August 7, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds and criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing her, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4½ to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. Although the undercover officer’s radioed description of the alleged seller was general, it provided the police with reasonable suspicion to detain defendant pending a confirmatory identification, given the very close spatial and temporal factors, the fact that defendant was still in the undercover officer’s presence when the arresting officer arrived, and the fact that defendant was the only other person in the vicinity (see People v Rojas, 281 AD2d 346 [2001], lv denied 96 NY2d 834 [2001]). Under the circumstances, it would have been highly unlikely for the woman accompanying the undercover officer upon the arresting officer’s arrival to have been a different woman from the alleged seller. The record fails to support defendant’s contention that she was “arrested” prior to the confirmatory identification; the officer’s choice of nomenclature in his testimony is not controlling (People v Hicks, 68 NY2d 234, 240 [1986]; People v Massillon, 289 AD2d 103, 104 [2001], lv denied 97 NY2d 731 [2002]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Andrias, Sullivan, Gonzalez and Sweeny, JJ.

Case Details

Case Name: People v. Brown
Court Name: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Date Published: Oct 18, 2005
Citation: 22 A.D.3d 349
Court Abbreviation: N.Y. App. Div.
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