The 2014-2015 term of the New York Court of Appeals saw the appointment of two new judges—Judges Leslie Stein and Eugene M. Fahey—who joined the Court mid-term. Otherwise, it was business as usual as the Court issued opinions in 84 criminal cases. Several cases broke new ground.
In People v. Dunbar, the Court considered the admissibility of a statement obtained as part of the Queens central booking interview program, in which an assistant district attorney and an investigator questioned defendants prior to arraignment.1 Dunbar had been arrested for a robbery, and, at the outset of the interview, the ADA read him this scripted “preamble”:
