Legal Opinion
People v. Jones
Criminal Court of the City of New York
Decided September 21, 1981PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Bernard J. Fried, J.
The issue in this case is whether it was unlawful to arrest the driver of an automobile on the basis of a false and erroneous computer-generated police alarm that the automobile had been stolen three months earlier, when it had actually been recovered three days after the theft but the alarm had never been canceled. For the reasons stated below the arrest, under the circumstances of this case, was unlawful and the evidence seized must be suppressed.
According to Police Officer William Corcoran who testified credibly at a suppression hearing, Richard…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Baker v. McCollanSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- People v. De BourNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
- Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State PenitentiarySupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- People v. HowardNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
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3Cited by8 opinions
- People v. RamirezCalifornia Supreme Court · 1983
- Albo v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1985
- People v. GriffinNew York Supreme Court · 1982
- People v. LawsonAppellate Court of Illinois · 1983
- Charles Joyner v. Deptuy Sheriff TaylorCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1997
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