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POLICE DID NOT HAVE A REASONABLE SUSPICION OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AT THE TIME DEFENDANT WAS STOPPED ON THE STREET, SHOWUP IDENTIFICATION SHOULD HAVE BEEN SUPPRESSED (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the show up identification of the defendant should have been suppressed because the police did not have a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity at the time the police approached and stopped the defendant. The police responded to a 911 dispatch indicating three black men, one with a book bag, had robbed a taxi driver on State Street and were headed east. Within two or three minutes a police officer spotted three men dressed in black, one with a book bag walking on a street west of State Street. Two of the men fled, but defendant remained. After defendant was taken into custody he was identified by the victim in a showup procedure. The Fourth Department noted that the three men were half a mile from the area indicated by the unidentified 911 caller and did not appear to be out of breath. The court also noted the fact that two of the men fled was not enough to create a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity on defendant’s part. The defendant also moved to suppress a cell phone that was found near where defendant was stopped. Denial of suppression was proper because there was no showing the phone was discarded because of unlawful conduct by the police. A new trial was ordered:

The necessary predicate for stopping and detaining defendant was that the officer have ” at least a reasonable suspicion that [defendant] ha[d] committed, [was] committing, or [was] about to commit a crime’ “… . Here, even assuming, arguendo, that the as-yet unidentified 911 caller was reliable and had a sufficient basis of knowledge… , we conclude that the information available to the detaining officer did not provide reasonable suspicion to stop and detain defendant. People v Spinks, 2018 NY Slip Op 05103, Fourth Dept 7-6-18

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