United States v. Palacio

RULING ON MOTION TO SUPPRESS STATEMENTS

DALY, District Judge.

Defendant John Palacio has moved to suppress the statements he made during custodial interrogation, arguing that the government unreasonably delayed presenting him before a magistrate and that neither his waiver of constitutional rights nor his resulting confession was voluntary. This Court’s findings of facts and conclusions of law are as follows.

FINDINGS OF FACT

On October 25, 1989 co-defendant Oscar Garcia and an undercover officer of the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force (“NYDETF”) negotiated for the purchase of a kilogram of…