Opinion

People v. Brown

  • 46 A.D.2d 590
  • 364 N.Y.S.2d 512
  • 1975 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 8549
Court
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Filed
Feb 20, 1975
Status
Published
Author
Kupfermah
On the bench
Kupfermah, Murphy
Cited by
2 cases
Authority
More cited than 0.7%

The opinion

Kupfermah, J.

(concurring). It is hard to conceive of a more rational approach protective of personal rights with respect to the issuance of a warrant than to have oral testimony by a police officer before a Supreme Court Justice, with his informant present. (Cf. People v. Mercado, 45 A D 2d 699.) Further, we have the conclusion of the Justice that she considers the informant reliable and the information valid.

For analogy, in the area of motion picture obscenity, a view by the court is a proper basis for a warrant where both First and Fourth Amendment rights are involved. (Heller v. New York, 413 U. S. 483 ; see Lee Art Theatre v. Virginia, 392 U. S. 636, 637 ; People v. Lubie, 70 Misc 2d 713 ; People v. P. A. J. Theater Corp., 66 Misc 2d 373, 376 ; People v. Shiffrin, 64 Misc 2d 311 ; and see G. I. Distrs. v. Murphy, 469 F. 2d 752 , 754, n. 4 vacated and remanded 413 U. S. 913 , on remand 490 F. 2d 1167 , cert. den. 416 U. S. 939 .) See, also, Note, “ The Prior Adversary Hearing: Solution to Procedural Due Process Problems in Obscenity Seizures ”, 46 N. Y. U. L. Bev. 80 and especially at *592 83 et seq. ‘ ‘ Development of the First and Fourth Amendment Approaches ”.

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