People v. Franklin

On May 11, 1973, Officer William J. Morris of the New York State Police conducted a warrantless search of an automobile owned and operated by the defendant herein which *190he had followed into a motel parking lot because he had noticed that the driver’s door of the vehicle had been damaged. According to the trooper’s testimony at a suppression hearing, he observed a “ roach clip ” on a key ring which the defendant produced from his pocket, and there was a “ charred residue ” but no narcotic material on the end of the clip, which the officer knew from past experience was a type of instrument…