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Matter of Efrain

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jun 18, 1996
228 A.D.2d 303 (N.Y. App. Div. 1996)

Opinion

June 18, 1996

Appeal from the Family Court, New York County (Judith Sheindlin, J.).


As conceded by the presentment agency, respondent's allocution was inadequate because the court failed to inform him or his mother of all possible dispositional consequences of his plea and to ascertain that they understood those consequences (Family Ct Act § 321.3), and the matter therefore should be remanded for a new fact-finding hearing ( Matter of Walker, 144 A.D.2d 306).

We note, however, that the court properly denied respondent's suppression motion without a hearing ( see, People v. Mendoza, 82 N.Y.2d 415). The court properly found that respondent lacked standing to challenge the police officer's retrieval of the glassines of heroin from underneath the garbage bag, since respondent had no objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in that public space ( People v. Ramirez-Portoreal, 88 N.Y.2d 99). Moreover, under the facts conceded by respondent in his moving papers, probable cause existed to arrest respondent, since it was reasonable under the evidence presented for the court to draw the inference that the officer who observed respondent selling heroin communicated those observations to the arresting officers ( supra).

Concur — Sullivan, J.P., Milonas, Ross, Tom and Mazzarelli, JJ.


Summaries of

Matter of Efrain

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jun 18, 1996
228 A.D.2d 303 (N.Y. App. Div. 1996)
Case details for

Matter of Efrain

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of EFRAIN R., a Person Alleged to be a Juvenile Delinquent…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Jun 18, 1996

Citations

228 A.D.2d 303 (N.Y. App. Div. 1996)
643 N.Y.S.2d 998

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