People v. Bryant

Judgment,Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered October 25, 1976, affirmed. To the extent that the facts are set forth in the dissent, they are fairly stated and need not be repeated here. This is not to say that we accept the conclusions drawn by our dissenting brother, particularly to the effect that defendant’s attendance at the police station was not willing on his part and that his eventual confession was coerced by means of involuntary police detention. At the very beginning, a "straw man” ("The police conceded that had Bryant sought to leave during the questioning, he would not have…