45 Cited authorities

  1. Dunaway v. New York

    442 U.S. 200 (1979)   Cited 3,722 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that seizing and transporting a suspect to a police station for interrogation without probable cause violated the Fourth Amendment
  2. Mapp v. Ohio

    367 U.S. 643 (1961)   Cited 8,289 times   22 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the exclusionary rule under the Fourth Amendment applies to the States, and overruling the contrary rule of Wolf v. Colorado , 338 U.S. 25, 69 S.Ct. 1359, 93 L.Ed. 1782, after considering and rejecting "the current validity of the factual grounds upon which Wolf was based"
  3. People v. Bleakley

    69 N.Y.2d 490 (N.Y. 1987)   Cited 11,295 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the Appellate Division committed reversible error when it "avoid[ed] its exclusive statutory authority to review the weight of the evidence in criminal cases"
  4. People v. Contes

    60 N.Y.2d 620 (N.Y. 1983)   Cited 11,958 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Stating the standard for review of the legal sufficiency of evidence in a criminal case is whether "after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt"
  5. People v. Casey

    95 N.Y.2d 354 (N.Y. 2000)   Cited 1,343 times
    Finding nonhearsay allegations including the complainant's supporting deposition, which stated that the order had been issued, was in effect, and that she had personally observed the defendant engage in conduct that violated the order could help to cure an alleged defect in the instrument premised on the failure to provide the underlying court order
  6. United States v. Harriss

    347 U.S. 612 (1954)   Cited 1,465 times
    Holding that "[t]he constitutional requirement of definiteness is violated by a criminal statute that fails to give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute."
  7. People v. De Bour

    40 N.Y.2d 210 (N.Y. 1976)   Cited 2,269 times   6 Legal Analyses
    In People v. LaPene, 352 N.E.2d 562 (N.Y. 1976), the New York Court of Appeals laid out a sliding scale of justifiable police intrusion, short of probable cause to arrest, which specified three distinct levels of intrusion correlating the allowable intensity of police conduct to the nature and weight of the facts precipitating the intrusion.
  8. People v. Alejandro

    70 N.Y.2d 133 (N.Y. 1987)   Cited 1,214 times
    Reviewing the legislature's intent to create a "demanding standard" for the sufficiency of informations
  9. People v. Hollman

    79 N.Y.2d 181 (N.Y. 1992)   Cited 780 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that reasonable suspicion was required before narcotics officers could approach a passenger in a bus terminal and ask for permission to search the person's bag
  10. Dunn v. United States

    442 U.S. 100 (1979)   Cited 339 times
    Holding that "[t]o uphold a conviction on a charge that was neither alleged in the indictment nor presented to a jury at trial offends the most basic notions of due process."
  11. Section 20 - Cession without reservation

    N.Y. State Law § 20   Cited 8 times

    Title and jurisdiction has been ceded to the United States by this state as follows: 1. Little island in Hudson river. A tract of land known as Little island, in the Hudson river, opposite New Baltimore, acquired by the United States for a light-house site and keepers' dwellings. 2. Lands in West Oswego. For the purpose of excavating and removing the same, to improve the navigation of the Oswego river, all the right and title of the state of New York in and to the following described property, namely: