Legal Opinion

People v. Griffin

New York County Courts

Decided March 5, 2010Published

1Opinion of the Court

*695OPINION OF THE COURT

Thomas Rainbow Morse, J.

The defendant has moved for suppression of a statement made to Officer DiSanto who was arresting him on an outstanding arrest warrant charging first-degree robbery.1 The officer responded to the location given by the defendant to the police dispatcher when the defendant called asking to be arrested on the warrant. Although Officer DiSanto testified that he did not observe any gun or bulge underneath the defendant’s clothing, he did notice that the defendant was wearing a metal back brace. When the officer told the defendant to turn around so he…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Harris v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. Oregon v. HassSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  3. People v. SettlesNew York Court of Appeals · 1978
  4. People v. SamuelsNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
  5. People v. JonesNew York Court of Appeals · 2004

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