Legal Opinion
People v. Sciacca
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 15, 1978PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*125OPINION OF THE COURT
Wachtler, J.
The People appeal from an order of the Appellate Division which reversed a judgment convicting defendant of the felony of unlawfully possessing and transporting untaxed cigarettes. The court below suppressed some 3,000 cartons of untaxed cigarettes that the tax investigators had discovered and seized from defendant’s van. It was here that the investigators had acted improperly when, in the dead of night, they broke into the locked garage where the van was parked. The lone dissenter would have affirmed, reasoning that the instant search and seizure was…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- People v. RizzoNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
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3Cited by10 opinions
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