People v. Love

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

The courts below did not err in determining that the police officers’ entrance into the hotel room was the result of a reasonably perceived emergency excusing the warrant requirement and that, consequently, their observation and seizure of the contraband in plain view was lawful (see, People v Mitchell, 39 NY2d 173, 177-178, cert denied 426 US 953). The nature and specificity of the police radio transmissions, their close temporal proximity, the reputation of the hotel as a locale for drug and prostitution…