Legal Opinion
People v. Stergiou
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 23, 2001PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena Uviller, J., at suppression hearing; James Leff, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered December 2, 1996, convicting defendant of reckless endangerment in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of 2 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant’s motion to suppress physical evidence and statements was properly denied. Since the police did not enter defendant’s apartment until after he threw a lit flare at an officer and set his apartment on fire, a point at which police and fire personnel were obviously duty-bound to enter, there is no…
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