People v. Ponto
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*574OPINION OF THE COURT
Weinstein, J.
We are called upon on this appeal to determine the constitutional validity of a seizure of physical evidence subsequent to a warrantless entry by police into a defendant’s furnished room based upon the homeowner’s representation that defendant had therein a gun with which he had threatened her. At the time of the entry, defendant was substantially in arrears in his weekly rental payments. Necessarily subsumed in our analysis is the question of whether he had a legitimate expectation of privacy with respect to the room so as to entitle him to suppression of the…
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