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IN RE: BILLY R., A Person Alleged to be a Juvenile Delinquent, Appellant. Presentment Agency.
Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Juan M. Merchan, J.), entered on or about July 23, 2007, which adjudicated appellant a juvenile delinquent, upon her admission that she committed an act which, if committed by an adult, would have constituted the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and placed her with the Office of Children and Family Services for a period of 18 months, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Appellant abandoned that portion of her suppression motion that sought a Mapp/Dunaway hearing when she failed to call the court's attention to the fact that this aspect of the motion remained unresolved (see People v. Berry, 15 A.D.3d 233, 788 N.Y.S.2d 849 [2005], lv. denied 4 N.Y.3d 883, 798 N.Y.S.2d 729, 831 N.E.2d 974 [2005] ). The court never denied this branch of the motion; rather, it made other rulings regarding the search warrant, whereupon appellant entered an admission without asking the court to rule on the outstanding branch of the motion. In this situation, the court's failure to make a ruling is not deemed a denial (see e.g. People v. Brimage, 214 A.D.2d 454, 631 N.Y.S.2d 2 [1995], lv. denied 86 N.Y.2d 732, 631 N.Y.S.2d 613, 655 N.E.2d 710 [1995] ).
The court properly denied the branch of the suppression seeking a hearing pursuant to People v. Darden, 34 N.Y.2d 177, 356 N.Y.S.2d 582, 313 N.E.2d 49 [1974], since probable cause could be established through the observations made by a detective, without resort to information received from a confidential informant (see People v. Edwards, 95 N.Y.2d 486, 493, 719 N.Y.S.2d 202, 741 N.E.2d 876 [2000] ).
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Decided: September 18, 2008
Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.
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