The order of the Appellate Division should be modified by remitting the case to Supreme Court, Bronx County, for a determination whether defendant's consent to search his apartment was sufficiently an act of free will to purge the primary taint of the illegal arrest.
On this appeal, the People concede that defendant was illegally arrested (Payton v New York,
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