PEOPLE v. VERGES

12751, 6530/10

120 A.D.3d 1028 (2014)

991 N.Y.S.2d 766

2014 NY Slip Op 06037

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. AUGUSTINE VERGES, Appellant.

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

Decided September 4, 2014.


The court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress a knife and statements he made to the police. Police officers patrolling a New York City Housing Authority building saw defendant try to enter the building as the man in front of him, whom he did not appear to know, opened the door after being buzzed into the building. Defendant did not have a key out, and he was not seen using the buzzer system himself. Although defendant suggests that the officers approached him as...

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