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POLICE OFFICER’S ALLEGED OBSERVATION OF A DRUG DEAL WAS DEEMED INCREDIBLE AS A MATTER OF LAW, MOTION TO SUPPRESS SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED, INDICTMENT DISMISSED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department determined defendant’s motion to suppress evidence should have been granted and the indictment dismissed in this drug possession case. The police officer’s (Borden’s) testimony that he observed the drug transaction, which took place inside a car, through his rearview mirror, was incredible as a matter of law:

… [W]e find that the People failed to establish the legality of the police conduct in the first instance, as Borden’s testimony was incredible and patently tailored to meet constitutional objections. Borden’s claim that he observed the alleged transaction through his rearview mirror with sufficient clarity to see that the object passed between the occupants of the car was Suboxone strains credulity and defies common sense … . Rather, common experience dictates that the dashboard of the defendant’s vehicle would have obscured Borden’s view of a hand-to-hand transaction between the defendant and the front-seat passenger. Borden’s testimony that the transaction occurred at a height sufficient for “public view” lacked credibility and suggested that his testimony was tailored to meet constitutional objections … . Moreover, the difference in size between the eight-inch by two-inch object Borden claimed to have seen passed between the occupants of the vehicle, and the two-inch by one-inch object recovered … , casts significant doubt on Borden’s testimony that he recognized the object as Suboxone. Accordingly, exercising our independent power of factual review, we conclude that the defendant’s motion to suppress the physical evidence recovered incident to his arrest should have been granted. People v Maiwandi, 2019 NY Slip Op 01618, Second Dept 3-6-19

 

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