People v. Battaglia
This text of 655 N.E.2d 169 (People v. Battaglia) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering New York Court of Appeals primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
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Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
Defendant’s vehicle was stopped by the police at 3:00 in the morning for proceeding the wrong way down a one-way street. The driver of the vehicle provided what the police rationally concluded was a false identification. In our view, this constitutes sufficient record support for the lower courts’ findings that the police possessed a founded suspicion of criminality justifying a common-law inquiry in the form of a request for defendant to consent to a search of the vehicle (People v Hollman, 79 NY2d 181, 191-192). Because this determination involves a mixed question of law and fact, beyond our power of review to the extent there is a finding below with record support (see, Matter of Gissette Angela P., 80 NY2d 863, 864), our review process is exhausted.
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655 N.E.2d 169, 86 N.Y.2d 755, 631 N.Y.S.2d 128, 1995 N.Y. LEXIS 2231, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/people-v-battaglia-ny-1995.