An appeals court set aside a man’s conviction for weapons possession after concluding that his arrest was premised on nothing more than the defendant looking in the direction of police as he walked in a “higher-crime” area of Buffalo.
Under People v. De Bour, 40 NY2d 210 (1976) and People v. Hollman, 79 NY2d 181 (1992), courts have established that police must have some objective, credible reason for initially approaching a defendant and requesting information from them, the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, wrote.
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