PEOPLE v. CIACCIO


45 N.Y.2d 626 (1978)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. John Ciaccio, John Cerverizzo, Thomas De Sousa and Robert Velez, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 7, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond Kobus and Michael F. Coiro, Jr., for John Cerverizzo, appellant.

Alexander Potruch for Thomas De Sousa, appellant.

John J. Santucci, District Attorney (John T. Wynne, Jr., of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and COOKE concur.


JONES, J.

The evidence in the record supports the conclusion reached by the courts below that, after the arrest of two of the four defendants for having hijacked a truck from which they stole cartons of watches, the police had probable cause to search a different white Econoline Ford truck as it stood in a garage on Alabama Avenue in Brooklyn, and that the high probability that the stolen merchandise would then...

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