Legal Opinion
People v. Jones
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 3, 1979PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Wachtler, J.
The question on this appeal concerns the admissibility of a confession obtained without Miranda 1 warnings by private store detectives who took the defendant into custody, with assistance from county police officers, and questioned him in the store’s security office while the police officers waited outside. The County Court held the statement was admissible and, following a jury trial, the defendant was convicted of grand larceny in the third degree. But a majority at the Appellate Division reversed, suppressed the confession and ordered a new trial (61 AD2d…
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- Lustig v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
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