Order affirmed.
Assuming, arguendo, that the officers' reasonable belief in the authority of the defendant's estranged husband to consent to a search of her apartment would be sufficient for purposes of the Fourth Amendment (see, generally, 2 La Fave, Search and Seizure, A Treatise on the Fourth Amendment, § 8.3, pp 716-725 and the cases cited therein; but see United States v Matlock,
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