PEOPLE v. COHEN


87 A.D.2d 77 (1982)

The People of the State of New York, Appellant, v. Patricia Cohen, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

April 26, 1982


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl A. Vergari, District Attorney (Anthony Joseph Servino of counsel), for appellant.

Litman, Friedman, Kaufman & Asche (Richard M. Asche, Lewis R. Friedman, Herman Kaufman, Jack T. Litman and Russell M. Gioiella of counsel), for respondent.

LAZER, MANGANO and NIEHOFF, JJ., concur.


MOLLEN, P. J.

On this appeal, we are called upon to determine the lawfulness of a warrantless search of the defendant's apartment by police who had been summoned to investigate a shooting. The case reaches us in the posture of an appeal by the People from so much of an order as suppressed certain evidence found in the course of the search.

On the evening of September 24, 1976 the police received a telephone call that someone had been shot at the...

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