People v. Denis

Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him, upon a jury verdict, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree (Penal Law § 220.43 [1]). We reject defendant’s contention that he was unlawfully arrested in his home without an arrest warrant in violation of Payton v New York (445 US 573 [1980]), and that County Court therefore erred in refusing to suppress his statements to the police as the fruits of an unlawful arrest. Police officers were in defendant’s home pursuant to a valid search warrant and, “[s]ince the requirements for a search warrant were…