PEOPLE v. RIVERA


78 A.D.2d 556 (1980)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Candido Rivera and Emanuel Rivera, Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

September 29, 1980


Judgments reversed, on the law, motion to suppress statements granted, and new trial ordered.

The issue remitted for resolution was whether the police, in the course of interrogating and obtaining confessions from the defendants, "had proceeded in disregard of the family's request to delay interrogation and had isolated defendants from those intent upon providing assistance" (People v Rivera, supra). After a hearing on this issue, the court concluded...

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