People v. Gladden

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered May 25, 1978, convicting him of *569burglary in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment affirmed. In this case two police officers testified that in the early morning hours of July 14, 1977, during a major electrical power "blackout” of New York City, they were on radio motor patrol in the East New York section of Brooklyn. They observed a group of individuals who were in the process of removing furniture from a warehouse on Pitkin Avenue. When these persons discovered the presence of…