(Download) "People State New York v. Noel Earley" by Supreme Court of New York * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People State New York v. Noel Earley
- Author : Supreme Court of New York
- Release Date : January 28, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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The defendant was charged with the possession of a sawed-off shotgun, and he moved, inter alia, to suppress the weapon. At the hearing held on the motion, Detective Peter Cifuni testified that, on the evening of June 6, 1976, he received a telephone call from one John Brisco, a cab driver, who informed him that he was going to pick up a man whom he feared because the man "carries a shotgun". Brisco said that he would call back before he left to pick the man up and he suggested that the detective follow him at that time. The detective agreed and, later that night, he and another officer, dressed in plainclothes and driving an unmarked car, followed Brisco to a one-family home in a residential area of Queens. From a distance of some 75 yards the detectives observed a man, later identified as the defendant, emerge from the house and enter the passenger side of Briscos taxicab. When the cab drove off, the detectives pursued and, after only a block and a half, they signaled for the cab to stop. Detective Cifuni thereupon exited his car, "ran" to the passenger side of the cab, and "pulled" the defendant out of the vehicle. As he did so, he saw what he thought to be the stock of a gun under the front passenger seat of the cab. He immediately subjected the defendant to a search, finding five rounds of ammunition in his right-hand pocket. He then placed the defendant in handcuffs,