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THE IDENTIFICATION EVIDENCE WAS TOO WEAK TO PROVIDE PROBABLE CAUSE FOR ARREST, DEFENDANT’S STATEMENTS SHOULD HAVE BEEN SUPPRESSED; THE APPELLATE COURT CAN NOT CONSIDER THE PEOPLE’S ARGUMENT THAT DEFENDANT WAS NOT IN CUSTODY WHEN HE MADE THE STATEMENTS BECAUSE THE ISSUE WAS NOT RULED ON BELOW (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing defendant’s murder conviction and ordering a new trial, determined the identification evidence was too weak to constitute probable cause for defendant’s arrest. Therefore defendant’s motion to suppress his statements should have been granted. The court noted that the People’s argument that defendant was not in custody when the statements were made could not be considered because the issue was not ruled upon by the trial court:

Contrary to the Supreme Court’s finding, no evidence was presented at the hearing that the defendant was identified “from a photographic image taken from one of the videos.” Detective John Kenney testified that a witness provided a description of the person she had seen holding a gun after shots were fired, including that the person was riding a bicycle. Kenney indicated that the witness was shown a photograph taken from a video recorded outside a restaurant near the scene of the crime, and that the witness identified the person depicted in the photograph as the individual she had seen holding a gun. Kenney also testified that another witness identified the person depicted in that photograph as the individual he had seen riding a bicycle after hearing the gunshots. However, no testimony was elicited that the person depicted in the photograph was identified as the defendant. Further, Detective Patrick Henn testified that another video was recorded across the street from the defendant’s home “just before the crime,” showing a person who “appeared to be the defendant” leaving his home several blocks away from the scene of the crime on a bicycle. However, no testimony was elicited that the witnesses were shown a photograph taken from the video of the defendant’s home, let alone that the witnesses identified the person depicted in that video as the person they saw holding a gun or riding a bicycle after the shots were fired. The mere fact that a person believed to be the defendant was observed riding a bicycle several blocks away from the scene of the crime, shortly before the shooting, is too innocuous, standing alone, to support a finding of probable cause … . Further, Henn’s conclusory testimony that the defendant “became the prime suspect” based on “[v]ideos and canvasses conducted,” without further details, was insufficient to demonstrate the existence of probable cause … . Consequently, the People failed to establish that the police had probable cause to arrest the defendant, and thus, the court should have suppressed, as fruits of the unlawful arrest, the lineup identification testimony and the defendant’s statements made to law enforcement officials on October 24, 2011 … . People v Kamenev, 2020 NY Slip Op 00301, Second Dept 1-15-20

 

January 15, 2020
Tags: Second Department
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