Court Opinion

ID: 9782814
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 19:19:56.582872+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:35:13.342597
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OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The appeal should be dismissed upon the ground that the reversal by the Appellate Division (74 AD3d 520 [1st Dept 2010]) was not on the law alone within the meaning of CPL 450.90 (2) (a).*
Here, the Appellate Division’s reversal of Supreme Court’s order granting suppression, while termed “on the law,” was actually predicated upon a differing view concerning the issue of attenuation, which is a mixed question of law and fact. A reversal *842on a mixed question typically does not meet the requisites of CPL 450.90 (2) (a) (see People v Mayorga, 64 NY2d 864, 865 [1985] [dismissing an appeal from an Appellate Division order of reversal involving mixed question of whether “there has been an attenuating break in an interrogation”]; People v Lawrence, 74 NY2d 732 [1989]; People v Howard, 74 NY2d 943 [1989]; People v Hinton, 81 NY2d 867 [1993]).

 Pursuant to CPL 450.90 (2) (a), this Court may entertain an appeal from an order of an intermediate appellate court reversing an order of a criminal court only if it “determines that the intermediate appellate court’s determination of reversal . . . was on the law alone or upon the law and such facts which, but for the determination of law, would not have led to reversal.”