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HAVING DEFENDANT WAIT WITH TWO POLICE OFFICERS WHILE A THIRD TOOK HIS ID TO AN APARTMENT TO VERIFY DEFENDANT’S CLAIM HE WAS VISITING A FRIEND IN THE APARTMENT WAS NOT JUSTIFIED UNDER DE BOUR, CONVICTION REVERSED (CT APP).

The Court of Appeals, reversing the Appellate Division in this street stop case, determined having defendant “stand right there” with two police officers, while a third took defendant’s ID to an apartment to verify defendant’s claim he was visiting a friend there, was not justified under De Bour:

Defendant … was approached by New York Police Department officers after they observed him exiting and reentering a building in a New York City Housing Authority development several times. Upon the officers’ request, defendant explained that he was visiting a friend who lived in the building. The officers asked defendant for his identification, which he provided. An officer then took defendant’s identification to the eleventh floor of the building to verify whether the occupant of the apartment defendant identified knew him … . Another officer instructed defendant to “stand right there” under the watch of two officers. When the first officer returned, having determined that the occupant of the apartment did not know defendant, defendant was arrested for trespassing. At the precinct, officers conducted a search of defendant’s person incident to his arrest and recovered 42 bags of crack cocaine from his groin area. * * *

At its inception, this was “a general, nonthreatening encounter in which an individual is approached for an articulable reason and asked briefly about his or her identity, destination, or reason for being in the area” … . That request implicated only level one of De Bour … and required only an objective credible reason to make basic inquiries of defendant … . On this record, the initial inquiry was justified.

However, the record demonstrates that the encounter thereafter rose beyond a level-one request for information, which the People failed to justify as lawful. Consequently, the People have failed to preserve any argument that the encounter in this case was justified under levels two or three of De Bour. People v Hill, 2019 NY Slip Op 03405, CtApp 5-2-19

 

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