Case Title: People v Kasse

Citation: 2014 NY Slip Op 02103

Docket Number: 

State: new-york

Court: New York Appellate Court

Date: 2014-03-27T00:00:00Z

Document:
People v Kasse

2014 NY Slip Op 02103

Decided on March 27, 2014

Court of Appeals

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.


Decided on March 27, 2014

No. 124 SSM 5
[*1]The People & c., Respondent,
vHarouna Kasse, Appellant.

Submitted by Michael J. McLaughlin, for appellant.
Submitted by Sheryl Feldman, for respondent.


MEMORANDUM:
The order of the Appellate Term should be affirmed.
The misdemeanor complaint was jurisdictionally valid because it described facts of an evidentiary nature establishing reasonable cause to believe that defendant engaged in [*2]unlicensed general vending in violation of section 20-453 of the New York City Administrative Code. The arresting police officer observed defendant at a specified time and public location standing behind a suitcase with more than 10 handbags, which he offered for sale to various individuals, and defendant failed to produce a vendor's license at the officer's request. Those allegations were sufficient for pleading purposes since they provided adequate notice to enable defendant to prepare a defense and invoke his protection against double jeopardy (see e.g. People v Dreyden, 15 NY3d 100, 103 [2010]; People v Allen, 92 NY2d 378, 385 [1998]).
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On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.11 of the Rules, order affirmed, in a memorandum. Chief Judge Lippman and Judges Graffeo, Read, Smith, Pigott, Rivera and Abdus-Salaam concur.
Decided March 27, 2014