Matter of Attorneys in Violation of Judiciary Law § 468-a (Lee Jiun Lok)

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• exclusionary mle mandates suppression of evidence on Federal constitutional grounds, when officer’s ignorance of traffic logistics at intersection on patrol route resulted in defendant’s arrest
• motion to suppress should have been allowed because automobile stop based on good faith, but mistaken, belief that defendant had committed traffic violation
• evidence suppressed where stop of defendant was based on officer's own mistaken belief that street was one-way and that defendant was traveling wrong way on it, but street was legally two-way street
• suppression of evidence on Federal constitutional grounds where stop not justified, violation substantial [officer had no legal or independent basis for stop], and exclusion will deter future violations [error was police officer’s]
• evidence suppressed where stop of defendant was based on officer’s own mistaken belief that street was one way and that defendant was traveling wrong way on it, but street was legally a two-way street
• invalidating stop based on mistake of law

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