People v. Thomas

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

People v. Thomas

62 A.D.2d 945, 404 N.Y.S.2d 11, 1978 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10955

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedApril 13, 1978

StatusPublished

Cited by6 cases

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People v. Thomas, 62 A.D.2d 945, 404 N.Y.S.2d 11, 1978 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10955 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1978).

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Judgment of conviction, Supreme Court, New York County, unanimously reversed, on the law, the motion to suppress granted, and the indictment dismissed. Police officers, from the vantage point of a fifth floor window, observed defendant-appellant, through binoculars, below on the steps of a building across the street. When another person sat beside him, defendant pulled a paper bag from his waistband, and extracted something, first characterized as a glassine envelope containing a white powder, and then, finally refined by cross-examination to "a white object,” and gave it to the other person. This evidence was insufficient to justify the arrest. "Even in the case of glassine envelope it has never been held that the mere passing of such an envelope establishes probable cause.” (People v Corrado, 22 NY2d 308, 313; also see People v Oden, 36 NY2d 382; People v Maldonado, 59 AD2d 692.) Concur—Birns, J. P., Evans, Lane, Markewich and Sandler, JJ.

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Judgment of conviction, Supreme Court, New York County, unanimously reversed, on the law, the motion to suppress granted, and the indictment dismissed. Police officers, from the vantage point of a fifth floor window, observed defendant-appellant, through binoculars, below on the steps of a building across the street. When another person sat beside him, defendant pulled a paper bag from his waistband, and extracted something, first characterized as a glassine envelope containing a white powder, and then, finally refined by cross-examination to "a white object,” and gave it to the other person. This evidence was insufficient to justify the arrest. "Even in the case of glassine envelope it has never been held that the mere passing of such an envelope establishes probable cause.” (People v Corrado, 22 NY2d 308, 313; also see People v Oden, 36 NY2d 382; People v Maldonado, 59 AD2d 692.) Concur—Birns, J. P., Evans, Lane, Markewich and Sandler, JJ.

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62 A.D.2d 945, 404 N.Y.S.2d 11, 1978 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10955, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/people-v-thomas-nyappdiv-1978.

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