PEOPLE v. CORTES

5081, 231/14.

155 A.D.3d 579 (2017)

66 N.Y.S.3d 1

2017 NY Slip Op 08440

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. MIGUEL CORTES, Appellant.

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

Decided November 30, 2017.


The hearing court properly denied defendant's motion insofar as it sought to suppress a bag (but not its contents) and a jacket that police observed in his bedroom, which matched corresponding items carried and worn by the suspect in surveillance videotapes of burglaries the officers were investigating. The record supports the hearing court's finding that defendant consented to the police entry. Contrary to defendant's assertion, defendant did more than simply "sit down....

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