People v. Torres

OPINION OF THE COURT

Frederic S. Berman, J.

Can the police continue to interrogate a suspect about a series of crimes in New York where they have learned of a pending case against him in New Jersey, a State which does not apply the Sixth Amendment protection of right of counsel adopted in New York in the Rogers-Bartolomeo line of cases?

This novel question — for which there is no apparent case law in this State — arose during the course of a lengthy pretrial hearing at which the defendant sought to suppress certain property seized and statements made in connection with his arrest for robbery,…