Legal Opinion

People v. Bermudez

New York County Courts

Decided June 19, 2015PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

Thomas Rainbow Morse, J.

After indictment on two counts of felony drug possession, the defendant moved for suppression of cocaine and heroin seized from him and suppression of statements made to his parole officer. Resolution of those issues is made more complex due to the dearth of definitive appellate decisions regarding the constitutional benchmark for parolee searches in New York. In 2006, the United States Supreme Court found the Fourth Amendment was not offended by “suspicionless” searches of parolees. Yet, since that decision in Samson v California,1 no New York…

2Cases cited74 opinions

  1. Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  3. Aguilar v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  4. Spinelli v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  5. Arizona v. GantSupreme Court of the United States · 2009

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. People v. MurrayAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2021

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