Legal Opinion
People v. Delgado
Criminal Court of the City of New York
Decided August 24, 1981PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
William D. Friedmann, J.
The sole issue, raised by the District Attorney’s arraignment-stage oral application,1 is whether this court may properly order the (postarrest/preindictment)2 in-court seizure of defendant’s footwear for the purpose of enabling the New York City Police Department comparison with a sneaker “print” allegedly left by defendant atop a bank counter during the commission of a robbery therein.
Defendant juvenile, age 15, was arrested on August 6, 1981, moments after his involvement with two other juvenile accomplices in a robbery of a Chemical Bank branch *493l…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Schmerber v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Rakas v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Gilbert v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Rochin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Stalzer v. European American BankCivil Court of the City of New York · 1982
- People v. WoodsonNew York Supreme Court · 1995