PEOPLE v. ESTRELLA


288 A.D.2d 133 (2001)

733 N.Y.S.2d 175

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. ANGEL ESTRELLA, Appellant.

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

Decided November 27, 2001.


Defendant's suppression motion was properly denied. Immediately after lawfully arresting defendant on a crowded subway platform, the police, who had been informed by the victim and by a witness that defendant had used a knife in the commission of a sexual crime and had secreted it in his duffle bag, properly searched the bag and recovered two knives. Although defendant had been handcuffed, the bag, which was at defendant's feet...

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