Legal Opinion
People v. Diaz
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided July 31, 2000PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the People from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Flaherty, J.), dated October 20, 1999, which, after a hearing, granted that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress statements made by him to law enforcement authorities.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
After a hearing, the Supreme Court determined that the police lacked probable cause to arrest the defendant, and therefore suppressed his subsequent statements to the police as the fruit of an unlawful arrest. The People appeal, and we affirm.
We reject the People’s contention that the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Spinelli v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Dunaway v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- People v. HuntleyNew York Court of Appeals · 1965
- People v. EvansNew York Court of Appeals · 2000
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