People v. Washington

— Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant was convicted of four counts of robbery in the first degree and one count of burglary in the first degree. He contends, inter alia, that a jacket, seized by police while effecting defendant’s warrantless arrest in his home, should have been suppressed. In denying the suppression motion, the court expressed the view that the decision in Payton v New York (445 US 573) was not to be retrospectively applied. On that basis, the court found it unnecessary to take evidence to determine whether the warrantless arrest was justified by exigent…