Legal Opinion
People v. Brooks
New York Supreme Court
Decided March 12, 1980PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Irving Lang, J.
To the plethora of pretrial motions and proceedings which have characterized the criminal law revolution of the 1960’s and 1970’s, a new mutation has been spawned, the Massiah-Hobson hearing.
The issue to be determined is whether to exclude from evidence surreptitiously recorded statements of the defendant made after he had been arrested in New York, retained counsel and was released on bail. The statements were recorded when defendant telephoned an alleged accomplice who, unbeknownst to him, was acting as a police informant for the purpose of participating…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Massiah v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Brewer v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Spano v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- People v. HobsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
- People v. SettlesNew York Court of Appeals · 1978
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3Cited by3 opinions
- People v. EubanksAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1982
- People v. DabneyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1980
- People v. BrooksAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1981