(Download) "People State New York v. Edward De Mauro" by Court of Appeals of New York ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People State New York v. Edward De Mauro
- Author : Court of Appeals of New York
- Release Date : January 11, 1979
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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We have examined the several contentions advanced on behalf of defendant and find them to be without merit. First, the receipt in evidence of defendants five statements provides no ground for reversal. He was given pretrial notice of these statements and afforded opportunity to listen to the tape recordings. The trial court denied his motion to suppress his first statement, made on July 3, 1975, finding that it was initiated by defendant and freely volunteered by him to the police before he was a suspect with respect to the homicide in this case, while he was being held on an unrelated charge and not being interrogated, and that the statement was made by him for the purpose of arranging an accommodation in connection with that other charge. We cannot say that this factual determination, now affirmed at the Appellate Division, was erroneous as a matter of law. As to his other four statements there was no motion to suppress or objection to their admission in evidence; thus no assertion of error was preserved for our review. Nor is there any proof in this record that defendant was represented by counsel as a consequence of which his statements would have been suppressible.