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PROP. CLERK OF NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEP'T v. MOLOMO

81 N.Y.2d 936 (1993)

Property Clerk of New York City Police Department, Petitioner, v. Michael Molomo, Respondent. Ford Motor Credit Company, Appellant, v. Michael Molomo, Defendant, and Andrew Furlong, as New York City Police Department Property Clerk, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 8, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, White Plains (Jerold R. Ruderman and Bryon L. Friedman of counsel), for appellant.

O. Peter Sherwood, Corporation Counsel of New York City (Elizabeth S. Natrella and Pamela Seider Dolgow of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges SIMONS, TITONE, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA concur; Judge SMITH taking no part.

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

Ford Motor Credit Company was the lienholder on a vehicle used in a drug purchase by the debtor Molomo. As an instrumentality of crime, the car was subjected to forfeiture under section 14-140 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York. In these combined forfeiture and replevin actions, Ford's principal contention is that the City...

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