Legal Opinion
People v. Burns
New York Supreme Court
Decided August 30, 1976PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Howard E. Goldfluss, J.
In this motion to suppress, the court must determine if there is a concomitant right of an individual to refuse to respond to a police officer’s right of inquiry. The defendant contends that he has such a right and that the seizure of evidence from his person was illegal because such seizure flowed from its exercise.
Officers Boyle and Velez, at the hearing on the motion, testified that on July 5, 1975, in the daytime, they were *1082patrolling in a radio car. As they were passing through a sector of the 44th Precinct in Bronx County, they observed a male…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Sibron v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San FranciscoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- People v. De BourNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
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3Cited by1 opinion
- People v. HowardNew York Court of Appeals · 1980