El Pueblo v. Carmona Rodríguez

Summary

A Summer Panel of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico denied both the motion in aid of jurisdiction seeking a stay of proceedings and the petition for certiorari by which Osbiel Carmona Rodríguez sought review of the Court of Appeals' refusal to intervene in the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence seized without a prior judicial warrant. The one-paragraph resolution states no grounds for the denial. A concurring vote would rest the denial on the sufficiency of the arresting agent's detailed testimony under the stereotyped-testimony doctrine and on deference to the suppression court's credibility findings, while a dissenting vote would have granted review because four substantially identical sworn statements by the same officer exemplify the stereotyped testimony that fails to rebut the presumption of illegality attaching to a warrantless seizure.