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PEOPLE v. PEARSON

59 A.D.3d 743 (2009)

___ N.Y.S.2d ___

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Appellant, v. HEZEKIAH PEARSON, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided February 24, 2009.

Ordered that the order dated February 14, 2008 is affirmed.

Without a "founded suspicion that criminal activity is afoot" (People v De Bour, 40 N.Y.2d 210, 223 [1976]), a police officer may not do more than request information from a person the officer encounters on the street (see People v Hollman, 79 N.Y.2d 181, 184, 191-192 [1992]; People v De Bour, 40 NY2d at 213, 219...

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