People v. Alexander

Mastro, J.P.

(dissenting and voting to affirm the order ap-

pealed from, with the following memorandum). I respectfully dissent. The record reveals that the defendant sought in his omnibus motion to suppress inculpatory statements allegedly made by him to a Queens County detective following his earlier arrest and interrogation by Nassau County police, on the ground, inter alia, that the Nassau County police unlawfully had detained him without reasonable suspicion and had arrested him without probable cause. Following the receipt of the prosecution’s opposition papers, in which the Queens County…