People v. Cannistra

At 1:00 p.m. on October 15, 1968, the defendant appeared at a landfill site maintained by the Town of Smithtown on the north side of Jericho Turnpike and Montclair Avenue in the Town of Smithtown, driving a black Ford Diesel sanitation truck bearing the colors of J & S Sanitation.

The defendant unceremoniously proceeded to unburden the truck of its load — garbage, euphemistically referred to as “ refuse ” by the sensitive, sophisticated, artistic and intelligentsia. Just as unceremoniously, one Andrew Wolke, who referred to himself as a town sanitation foreman at this site, proceeded to wade…