Legal Opinion
People v. Cooks
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 16, 2008PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*797The defendant seeks to vacate his plea of guilty by challenging the Supreme Court’s denial, made after an evidentiary hearing, of that branch of his omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence. The “credibility determinations of a hearing court are accorded great deference on appeal and will not be disturbed unless clearly unsupported by the record” (People v Umadat, 29 AD3d 830 [2006]; see People v Bhattacharjee, 51 AD3d 684 [2008]; People v Wynter, 48 AD3d 492 [2008]). Here, according deference to the credibility determinations of the hearing court, it cannot be said that the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- People v. RiveraAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2006
- People v. CurryAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
- People v. BhattacharjeeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2008
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