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MOTION TO SUPPRESS SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DENIED ON THE GROUND THAT DEFENDANT LACKED STANDING, OTHER GROUNDS FOR SUPPRESSION NOT RAISED BELOW COULD NOT BE CONSIDERED ON APPEAL, DEFENSE COUNSEL SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PRECLUDED FROM CROSS-EXAMINING A POLICE OFFICER ABOUT A CIVIL SUIT AGAINST HIM (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing defendant’s conviction, determined that defendant’s motion to suppress the weapon he dropped should not have been denied on the ground defendant lacked standing and defense counsel should not have been precluded from cross-examining a police officer about allegations made in a federal civil suit against him.  The First Department noted it could not consider alternative grounds for suppression not raised below:

Two officers testified at the hearing to the effect that the pistol was recovered immediately after it fell from defendant’s person. Since this Court lacks jurisdiction to affirm the denial of defendant’s motion to suppress the pistol on the alternative ground that the police had reasonable suspicion to stop and frisk him, a ground upon which the hearing court did not rule, we “reverse the denial of suppression and remit the case to Supreme Court for further proceedings”… .

Defendant is also entitled to a new trial, because the trial court improperly precluded his counsel from cross-examining the only police officer who allegedly saw the pistol falling from his person about allegations raised in a federal civil action against the officer, which had settled. Counsel had a good faith basis for seeking to impeach the officer’s credibility by asking him about allegations that he and other officers approached and assaulted the plaintiff in that case without any basis for suspecting him of posing a danger and filed baseless criminal charges against him … . Although trial courts “retain broad discretion” over the admission of prior bad acts allegedly committed by a police witness or other witness … , the court improvidently exercised its discretion by entirely precluding any cross-examination about the allegations at issue here without any valid … . People v Holmes, 2019 NY Slip Op 02033, First Dept 3-19-19

 

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