Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jose Castro, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1986-10-14
Citations: 68 N.Y.2d 850
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Jose Castro, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 68
Pages: 850–851

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Jose Castro, Appellant.
Argued September 5, 1986;
decided October 14, 1986
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Nancy Feldman and Philip L. Weinstein for appellant.
Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney (Ralph Fabrizio and Joyce P. Adolfsen of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
Defendant argues on this appeal that the police acted unreasonably in conducting a pat-down search based on a tip supplied by an informant during a face-to-face encounter with police that defendant had a gun and said that he intended to "rip off a 'queen' ".
Resolution of this question turns primarily on an assessment of the credibility of the officer who testified before the suppression court. Thus, in view of the undisturbed finding that the police possessed reasonable suspicion to frisk defendant, his contention presents a mixed question of law and fact, which we will review only to the extent of determining whether there was evidence at the suppression hearing to support the hearing court's determination (People v Van Lucen, 64 NY2d 625; People c Vincente, 63 NY2d 745). Because such record support exists, we conclude that the motion to suppress was properly denied.
Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Meyer, Simons, Kaye, Alexander, Titone and Hancock, Jr., concur.
Order affirmed in a memorandum.