Opinion
2021-07436
12-23-2021
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENT, v. RICHARD BROWN, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
FRANK H. HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY, SYRACUSE (THOMAS M. LEITH OF COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT. WILLIAM J. FITZPATRICK, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, SYRACUSE (DARIENN P. BALIN OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT.
FRANK H. HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY, SYRACUSE (THOMAS M. LEITH OF COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
WILLIAM J. FITZPATRICK, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, SYRACUSE (DARIENN P. BALIN OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT.
PRESENT: CENTRA, J.P., LINDLEY, NEMOYER, AND BANNISTER, JJ.
Appeal from a judgment of the Onondaga County Court (Matthew J. Doran, J.), rendered July 15, 2019. The judgment convicted defendant upon his plea of guilty of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree.
It is hereby ORDERED that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of, inter alia, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree (Penal Law § 265.03 [3]). Contrary to defendant's contention, County Court properly determined that his statement at the precinct was attenuated from his allegedly illegal arrest (see United States v Cobb, 182 F.3d 933, *3 [10th Cir 1999]; United States v Edmondson, 791 F.2d 1512, 1515-1516 [11th Cir 1986]; People v Bradford, 15 N.Y.3d 329, 333-334 [2010]; see also Rawlings v Kentucky, 448 U.S. 98, 110 [1980]). The court thus properly refused to suppress that statement (see Bradford, 15 N.Y.3d at 333-334).