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THE RECORDED CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE 15-YEAR-OLD DEFENDANT AND HIS FATHER IN THE POLICE INTERVIEW ROOM IS PROTECTED BY PARENT-CHILD PRIVILEGE AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN SUPPRESSED (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing defendant’s murder convictions, determined the recorded conversation between the 15-year-old defendant and his father in the interview room at the police station was protected by parent-child privilege and should have been suppressed. The defendant had requested a lawyer and the police had left the interview room at the time the conversation was recorded:

We conclude that a parent-child privilege did arise under the circumstances of this case … . The application of the privilege is not dependent on a finding of police misconduct … . … [W]e recognize, as other courts have, that a young defendant will naturally look to a parent “as a primary source of help and advice” …  The statements defendant now seeks to suppress were made in an attempt to utilize his father as such a source of assistance. “It would not be consistent with basic fairness to exact as a price for that assistance, his acquiescence to the overhearing presence of government agents” … . People v Kemp, 2023 NY Slip Op 00776, Fourth Dept 2-10-23

Practice Point: Here the Fourth Department recognized a parent-child privilege and suppressed a recorded conversation between the 15-year-old defendant and his father which took place in the police interview room. The defendant had just requested a lawyer and the police had left the room. But the recording equipment was still operating.

 

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