PEOPLE v. NILES

Ind. No. 4941/15. Appeal No. 14841. Case No. 2018-2150.

200 A.D.3d 542 (2021)

155 N.Y.S.3d 320

2021 NY Slip Op 06967

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Paul Niles, Appellant.

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

Decided December 14, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Dean , Center for Appellate Litigation, New York ( Hunter Haney of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. , District Attorney, New York ( Sheila O'Shea of counsel), for respondent.

Concur—Kern, J.P., Kennedy, Scarpulla, Mendez, Shulman, JJ.


The record supports the court's finding, based in part on a videotape of the interrogation, that defendant's statement was voluntarily given, so as to permit its use for impeachment purposes (see People v Wilson, 28 N.Y.3d 67, 72 [2016]). There is no evidence of police coercion, or that the voluntariness of the statement was undermined by defendant's mental condition, and under the totality...

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