Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1981

People v. King

People v. King
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided January 26, 1981
79 A.D.2d 1033; 437 N.Y.S.2d 931; 1981 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 9952
People v. King

Opinion of the Court

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, rendered January 5, 1979, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of defendant’s motion to suppress certain evidence. Judgment reversed, on the law, and plea *1034vacated; the denial of defendant’s motion to suppress is vacated and the “motion [is] restored to pending status in order that the issue of [the] legality” of his detention if any, can be fully explored (see People v Misuis, 47 NY2d 979, 981; Dunaway v New York, 442 US 200). The instant appeal is governed, as the People concede, by this court’s prior disposition of an appeal by appellant’s codefendant (see People v Specks, 77 AD2d 669). Therefore a new suppression hearing is mandated. Hopkins, J. P., Mangano, Margett and Weinstein, JJ., concur.

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