People v Kadenhead

Holding The court held that law enforcement officers had probable cause to arrest the defendant based on security footage and other circumstantial evidence, and that the arrest in a common hallway did not violate the Payton rule because the defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in that area.

The court’s words

defendant was not arrested in his own apartment but in the common hallway of a [multi]-apartment building . . . and thus had no reasonable expectation of privacy

2026 NY Slip Op 04680, at the official text

the police had knowledge that defendant [appeared to be] the last known person to see the victim alive when he [entered the apartment with the victim]

2026 NY Slip Op 04680, at the official text

the foregoing facts, taken together, were sufficient to supply the requisite probable cause for defendant's de facto arrest

2026 NY Slip Op 04680, at the official text