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THE FACTS THAT THE PARKED CAR IN WHICH DEFENDANT WAS SITTING WITH TWO OTHERS WAS IN A HIGH CRIME AREA AND WAS NOT RUNNING DID NOT PROVIDE THE POLICE WITH AN ARTICULABLE, CREDIBLE REASON TO APPROACH THE CAR; THE EVIDENCE SUBSEQUENTLY SEIZED AND THE STATEMENTS SUBSEQUENTLY MADE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SUPPRESSED (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, vacating defendant’s guilty plea and dismissing the indictment, determined the police did not have an articulable. credible reason for approaching the parked car defendant was sitting in. Therefore the evidence subsequently seized and the statements subsequently made should have been suppressed:

Where … “police officers approach a vehicle that is already parked and stationary, the only level of suspicion necessary to justify that approach is an articulable, credible reason for doing so, not necessarily indicative of criminality” … . The approach, however, “must be predicated on more than a hunch, whim, caprice or idle curiosity” … . Here, the officer testified at the suppression hearing that he and his partner approached the vehicle because the apartment complex at which it was parked was in a high crime area and because the vehicle was not running and had three occupants. The hearing record is devoid, however, of evidence that the officer was “aware of or observed conduct which provided a particularized reason to request information” from the occupants of the vehicle … . People v King, 2021 NY Slip Op 06499, Fourth Dept 11-19-21

 

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