PEOPLE v. SOVIERO


5 A.D.3d 404 (2004)

772 N.Y.S.2d 710

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JOHN SOVIERO, Appellant.

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

March 1, 2004.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant's contention, the testimony of the arresting officer was sufficient to support the hearing court's determination that there was probable cause for his arrest. "Under the fellow officer rule, a police officer can make a lawful arrest even without personal knowledge sufficient to establish probable cause, so long as the officer is acting upon the direction of or as a result of communication with a fellow...

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