The following excerpt is from People v. Russ, 460 N.E.2d 1086, 472 N.Y.S.2d 601, 61 N.Y.2d 693 (N.Y. 1984):
The officer who frisked defendant and took a pistol from the area of her waistband had received a radio report of an anonymous 911 call in which the informant stated that he had seen a woman in a blue car with a white top parked in front of 123 West 112th Street pass a handgun to a man seated in the car with her. Finding defendant in a car meeting the description and the specific location indicated by the informant provided reasonable suspicion that a crime had occurred or was about to occur and warranted the officer's request that she step out of the car for inquiry (Pennsylvania v. Mimms, 434 U.S. 106, 98 S.Ct. 330, 54 L.Ed.2d 331; People v. Landy, 59 N.Y.2d 369, 376, 465 N.Y.S.2d 857, 452 N.E.2d 1185).
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