Legal Opinion
People v. White
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 30, 1965PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Chief Judge Desmond.
After his motion to suppress evidence as illegally obtained had been denied by a Judge of the New York City Criminal Court defendant pleaded guilty to a violation of section 1747-d of the Penal Law (possession of a hypodermic needle) and was sentenced to serve six months in the penitentiary. Appellate Term unanimously affirmed without opinion and defendant was granted leave to come here. The sole point made by defense counsel is that the failure of the court at the suppression hearing to require the People to disclose the identity of the alleged informer ‘ ‘ violated…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Carroll v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- United States v. VentrescaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Roviaro v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Scher v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
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3Cited by28 opinions
- People v. McRayNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
- People v. CrosbyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1983
- People v. LewisIllinois Supreme Court · 1974
- State v. SouzaSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1981
- People v. McAvoyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1988
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