PEOPLE v. ROQUE


282 A.D.2d 245 (2001)

723 N.Y.S.2d 39

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. EMILIO ROQUE, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided April 10, 2001.


Defendant's motion to suppress a large sum of money on his person was properly denied. The officers, who were lawfully in the apartment building checking for trespassers, encountered a trespasser whom they knew from prior dealings. The officers arrested him and a search recovered narcotics. As the officers were effecting the arrest, a voice called for the arrestee by name from the floor below, and when the officers descended the stairs, they observed defendant, the only person...

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