People v. Aveni

OPINION OF THE COURT

Belen, J.

This case presents us with an opportunity to decide under what circumstances the police, while interrogating a suspect, exceed permissible deception, such that a suspect’s statements to the police must be suppressed because they were unconstitutionally coerced. During the early morning of January 13, 2009, the defendant, Paul Aveni, who had been arrested the previous night for violating a temporary order of protection obtained by his mother, Mary Aveni (hereinafter Mary), was intentionally deceived and threatened by two detectives from the New Rochelle Police…