People v. Pagan

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lagaña, J.), rendered March 30, 1984, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On May 26, 1983 at about 2:30 p.m., pursuant to a search warrant, the police forcibly entered an apartment and encountered the defendant standing in the kitchen without shirt, shoes or trousers.

A search of the middle and front bedrooms disclosed a quantity…