IN RE: Deshaun G. (Anonymous) (2011)

Submitted—September 20, 2011

DECISION & ORDER

In a juvenile delinquency proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 3, Deshaun G. appeals from an order of disposition of the Family Court, Kings County (Toussaint, J.), dated September 22, 2010, which, upon a fact-finding order of the same court dated April 30, 2010, made upon his admission that he had committed an act which constituted the crime of unlawful possession of weapons by persons under 16, adjudged him to be a juvenile delinquent, and placed him on probation for a period of 12 months.   The appeal brings up for review the fact-finding order and the denial, after a hearing (Weinstein, J.), of that branch of Deshaun G.'s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.

ORDERED that the appeal from so much of the order of disposition as placed the appellant on probation for a period of 12 months is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements;  and it is further,

ORDERED that the order of disposition is affirmed insofar as reviewed, without costs or disbursements.

The appeal from so much of the order of disposition as placed the appellant on probation for a period of 12 months has been rendered academic, as the period of placement has expired (see Matter of Javan P., 81 AD3d 833).

The Family Court properly denied that branch of the appellant's omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.   The evidence presented at the suppression hearing established that there was a lawful basis to stop and detain the appellant as a suspected truant (see Education Law § 3213[2];  Matter of Shannon B., 70 N.Y.2d 458;  Matter of Kennedy T., 39 AD3d 408;  Matter of D'Angelo H., 184 A.D.2d 1039, 1040;  Matter of Devon B., 158 A.D.2d 519, 520), and the pat-down of the book bag which the appellant was holding was reasonable under the circumstances (see Matter of Bernard G., 247 A.D.2d 91, 93;  Matter of D'Angelo H., 184 A.D.2d at 1040;  Matter of Mark Anthony G., 169 A.D.2d 89, 92–93;  Matter of Devon B., 158 A.D.2d at 520;  Matter of Terrence G., 109 A.D.2d 440, 445–446).

MASTRO, J.P., FLORIO, ENG and SGROI, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Matthew G. Kiernan

Clerk of the Court