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PEOPLE v. MINLEY

68 N.Y.2d 952 (1986)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Harrell Minley, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided November 13, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Crimi for appellant.

Howard R. Relin, District Attorney (Melvin Bressler of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges MEYER, SIMONS, ALEXANDER and TITONE concur; Judges KAYE and HANCOCK, JR., taking no part.

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

The Supreme Court's holding in Payton v New York (445 U.S. 573) prohibits the police from crossing the threshold of a suspect's home to effect a warrantless arrest in the absence of exigent circumstances. The evil to which the rule is addressed is the unsupervised invasion of a citizen's privacy in his own home...

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