PEOPLE v. BUTLER

Ind. No. 3780/15. Appeal No. 12802. Case No. 2019-4824.

190 A.D.3d 464 (2021)

140 N.Y.S.3d 21

2021 NY Slip Op 00094

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Kenneth Butler, Appellant.

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

Decided January 7, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Chu , Interim Attorney-in-Charge, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York ( C. Taylor Poor of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. , District Attorney, New York ( Sheila L. Bautista of counsel), for respondent.

Concur— Manzanet-Daniels, J.P., Kapnick, Moulton, González, Scarpulla, JJ.


The court properly denied defendant's suppression motion. A special patrolman working at a housing complex recognized defendant and his codefendant from a wanted poster. Based on surveillance videotapes and reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom, there was ample probable cause to believe that the two men had committed a series of burglaries in the complex (see People v Carrasquillo, 54 N.Y.2d 248 [1981]; see also Brinegar...

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