The People v. Sandra Diaz

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Early in the morning of April 8, 2009, police officers executed a search warrant at an apartment in a building located in Manhattan. The officers had been investigating this address for potential illegal drug activity for almost a year. Defendant Sandra Diaz and her three children, her 10-year-old niece and Matías Rivera, her children’s father, were present in the apartment. When the police entered, defendant was standing in her “bedroom attire” in the doorway of a bedroom. Inside this bedroom, in several…