41 A.D.2d 679 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1973
Appeal from an order of the County Court of Ulster County, entered April 20, 1972, which granted defendants’ motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant. The defendants were indicted for criminal possession of dangerous drugs in the third degree and sixth degree and for criminal possession -of instruments for the administering of narcotic drugs. The drugs defendants allegedly possessed were seized by police officers during a predawn raid on their college dormitory room, conducted pursuant to a search warrant issued the previous day by a Town Justice. The trial court held that probable cause for the issuance of the warrant had not been established. The primary issue presented on this appeal is whether the affidavit of the police officer on his request for a search warrant set forth sufficient allegations of fact to satisfy the disinterested Magistrate that there was reasonable cause to believe that the property sought by the search would be found in the place designated in the warrant. In order to resolve this question the pertinent parts of the affidavit must be examined together with principles of current case law. The -affidavit stated: “ 2. That on March 21, 1971 at about 7:00 A.M.,