People v. Hopkins

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

The finding that the defendant’s prearraignment oral and written confessions were voluntary, having support in the record, is beyond our review (People v Anderson, 42 NY2d 35, 38-39; People v Leonti, 18 NY2d 384, 389, cert den 389 US 1007). Moreover, absent extraordinary circumstances, a delay in arraignment is but a factor to consider on an issue of underlying involuntariness (People v Holland, 48 NY2d 861; People v Dairsaw, 46 NY2d 739). And such a delay does not cause the right to counsel to attach…