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People v. Cohen

23 N.Y.2d 674 Court N.Y. Decision date 1968-11-14 English

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p. 674
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Fred Cohen, Appellant.
Argued October 17, 1968;
decided November 14, 1968.
p. 675
Julia P. Heit and Anthony F. Marra for appellant.
Elliott Golden, Acting District Attorney (Raymond J. Scanlan and Harry Brodbar of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment affirmed; no opinion.

Concur: Judges Soileppi, Bergan, Keating, Breitel and Jasen. Chief Judge Ftild and Judge Burke dissent and vote to reverse upon the ground that the detective acted without the requisite probable cause to make a valid arrest and the evidence obtained incidental to this invalid arrest should be suppressed.