People v. Hall

OPINION OF THE COURT

Saxe, J.

On this appeal by the People from an order granting suppression of physical evidence, we are asked to consider whether the police violated the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures by extracting a small bag secreted within defendant’s rectum. This took place at the police precinct, following defendant’s arrest for criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, after the police observed a string protruding from his rectum in the course of conducting a strip search and visual body cavity inspection.

At the suppression…