People v. Brown

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered June 26, 1974, convicting the defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, and imposing upon him an indeterminate sentence of six years to life, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, the motion to suppress granted and the indictment dismissed. Despite the fact that a number of lethal weapons and a quantity of narcotics were seized by the police in a hotel room occupied by the defendant and a female companion on November 8,1973, we are required to suppress…