Legal Opinion
People v. Adams
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 7, 1981PublishedCited by 204 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Jasen, J.
On this appeal, we are once again called upon to delineate the bounds of the exclusionary rule. The specific question presented is whether evidence obtained as a result of the warrantless search of a closet in the defendant’s apartment should have been suppressed. To answer this question, we must determine whether, under the circumstances of this case, the reasonable, although mistaken, reliance by police officers on the authority of an individual to consent to a search should result in the suppression of evidence obtained as a result of that search.
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