Court Opinion

ID: 9458848
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:03:12.332703+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:54.780320
License: Public Domain

FRANK A. KAUFMAN, District Judge
(concurring):
In this case, petitioner’s own testimony reveals that he had just entered the cab and that the cab had only begun to start up from its stationary position at a traffic signal when Podrasky approached the cab, showed his credentials, asked the driver to hold up, questioned petitioner about his papers, and was informed by petitioner that he had no papers. All of this apparently took only a few seconds. Thus, if there was any detention before petitioner stated he had no papers, such detention was most quick, most specific and not inappropriate under the circumstances. Once petitioner stated he had no papers, “the relationship between him and Podrasky altered significantly”, as Judge MacKinnon has written, and provided cause for Podrasky’s subsequent actions. However, whether there was a sufficient basis for Podrasky’s initial suspicion concerning petitioner’s status to permit more than the briefest delay and a single specific question presents, in my opinion, a serious question which does not need to be resolved herein.