United States v. Ceccolini

In December 1974, Ronald Biro, a uniformed police officer on assignment to patrol school crossings, entered respondent’s place of business, the Sleepy Hollow Flower Shop, in North Tarrytown, N. Y. He went behind the customer counter and, in the words of Ichabod Crane, one of Tarrytown’s more *270illustrious inhabitants of days gone past, “tarried,” spending his short break engaged in conversation with his friend Lois Hennessey, an employee of the shop. During the course of the conversation he noticed an envelope with money sticking out of it lying on the drawer of the cash register behind the…