People v. Barnes

Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Supreme Court properly denied those parts of the motion of defendant seeking suppression of tangible evidence, identification evidence and the statement he made to the police after receiving Miranda warnings. Although defendant was illegally detained and the police failed to provide Miranda warnings before commencing their initial interrogation, the “connection between the lawless conduct of the police and the discovery of the challenged evidence [was] * * so attenuated as to dissipate the taint’ ” (Wong Sun v United States, 371 US 471, 487, quoting…