The following excerpt is from Kenneth C., Matter of, 125 Misc.2d 227, 479 N.Y.S.2d 396 (N.Y. Fam. Ct. 1984):
Therefore, this court concludes that J. was arrested or seized illegally, without probable cause, and brought to the station house for custodial interrogation in violation of Dunaway v. New York, supra. The final question becomes, did this prior Fourth Amendment violation taint J.'s two later confessions?
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