PEOPLE v. RIVERA


68 N.Y.2d 786 (1986)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Leslie Rivera, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided September 9, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane K. Falcon and Philip L. Weinstein for appellant.

Mario Merola, District Attorney (Cindy Rainbow of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR., concur.


MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

The sole issue raised by defendant on this appeal from the denial of his suppression motion is that the testimony of the arresting officer should have been rejected, as a matter of law, as incredible; only if the officer's testimony is credited was there probable cause for the search. Each of the three alleged inconsistencies between the officer's...

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