PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS


140 Misc.2d 741 (1988)

The People of the State of New York, Plaintiff, v. Edward Williams, McRoy Skerrit, Elisa Murph and Hilliard Lightfoot, Defendants.

Supreme Court, Kings County.

July 22, 1988


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Sheinberg for Edward Williams, defendant. Owen W. Daley for McRoy Skerrit, defendant. Braverman & Rost (William Rost of counsel), for Elisa Murph, defendant. Howard Kirsch for Hilliard Lightfoot, defendant. Elizabeth Holtzman, District Attorney (David Heslin of counsel), for plaintiff.


STEVEN FISHER, J.

On these motions, the sole question presented is whether and to what extent each of the four defendants has standing to seek the suppression of contraband seized by police under authority of a concededly defective search warrant. The issue is a difficult one because, at the present time, the law of standing in New York seems unsettled and is less than entirely clear.

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