People v. Huggins
| Decision Date | 01 May 1975 |
| Parties | , 331 N.E.2d 684 The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Michael HUGGINS, Appellant. |
| Court | New York Court of Appeals Court of Appeals |
Rosalie M. Stoll and Nathaniel A. Barrell, Buffalo, for appellant.
Edward C. Cosgrove, Dist. Atty. (Judith Blake Manzella, Buffalo, of counsel), for respondent.
The disclosure of an informer's identity at suppression hearings is a matter left to the sound but reviewable discretion of the hearing court. In People v. Darden, 34 N.Y.2d 177, 356 N.Y.S.2d 582, 313 N.E.2d 49 recognizing the delicacy of the task, we furnished certain guidelines to assist the courts in exercising their discretionary powers in conducting suppression hearings to hold In camera inquiries as to the existence of an informer and with respect to the communications made by the informer to the police. In the present case, though requested, such an inquiry was denied. In the circumstances disclosed in this record, however, we cannot say that such denial was an abuse of discretion, especially since at the time the hearing court did not have the benefit of the guidelines subsequently announced in our opinion in People v. Darden (supra).
Order, 43 A.D.2d 1017, 353 N.Y.S.2d 949 affirmed in a memorandum.
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