People v. Maldonado
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Titone, J.
The sole issue presented on appeal is whether, under the circumstances, a police search of an unsealed cardboard box was proper. The appellant contends that the trial court’s denial of her motion to suppress the contents of the box, a quantity of cocaine, mandates reversal.
The pertinent facts, as revealed from the minutes of the suppression hearing, are not in dispute. On the morning of April 30, 1979, Detective Angelo Carrion, an undercover Suffolk County Narcotics officer, telephoned one Pedro Tavares Castillo to arrange for a purchase of cocaine. Tavares…
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