Legal Opinion
People v. Rizzo
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 5, 1975PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRabin, Acting P. J.
The defendant, Ronald Frank Rizzo, was convicted after a jury trial of possession for sale of non-tax-paid cigarettes in violation of article 20 of the Tax Law. The cigarettes were seized, without the benefit of a warrant, from the garage of Rizzo’s residence by an investigator for the Department of Taxation and Finance of the State. After a hearing, Rizzo’s motion during trial to suppress the cigarettes, on the ground that they had been seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights, was denied "only because of the statutory grant of power given under section 474 of the Tax Law,” which…
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