UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,
v.
Michael LILLA, Mark Lilla, Robert Lilla, Douglas Pintka, Raymond C. Colehammer, Christopher Burch, Richard Strack, Michael Bouck, Frank Benson, and Peter Santos, Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued November 17, 1982.
Decided January 27, 1983.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Stephen R. Coffey, O'Connell & Aronowitz, P.C., Albany, N.Y. (John R. Massaroni, Parisi, DeLorenzo, Gordon, Pasquariello & Weiskopf, P.C., Schenectady, N.Y., of counsel), for appellants Mark Lilla, Christopher Burch and Douglas Pintka.
John R. Massaroni, Parisi, DeLorenzo, Gordon, Pasquariello & Weiskopf, P.C., Schenectady, N.Y. (Stephen R. Coffey, O'Connell & Aronowitz, P.C., Albany, N.Y., of counsel), for appellant Robert Lilla.
John K. Sharkey, Higgins, Roberts, Beyerl & Coan, P.C., Schenectady, N.Y., for appellant Michael Bouck.
E. Stewart Jones, Jr., Troy, N.Y. (Leonard W. Krouner, Jeffrey Sherrin, Albany, N.Y., of counsel), for appellant Raymond Colehammer.
George J. Camino, Schenectady, N.Y., for appellant Michael Lilla.
Paul V. French, Albany, N.Y. (Paul E. Cheeseman, Albany, N.Y., on the brief, Thomas P. O'Sullivan, Albany, N.Y., of counsel), for appellant Strack.
Jerome K. Frost, Troy, N.Y., for appellants Benson and Santos.
George Yanthis, Asst. U.S. Atty., Albany, N.Y. (Frederick J. Scullin, Jr., U.S. Atty., N.D.N.Y., Albany, N.Y., on the brief), for appellee.
Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, OAKES, Circuit Judge, and BONSAL, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
OAKES, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the issue whether the affidavit of a New York state trooper applying for an eavesdropping warrant provided sufficient information that normal investigative procedures reasonably appeared unlikely to succeed if tried. We hold that the affidavit was insufficient under both N.Y.Crim.Proc.Law §§ 700.15(4) and 700.20(2), (3), as well as 18 U.S.C. § 2518(1)(c), and, with one exception, reverse the appellants' convictions...
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