A Queens trial court was correct in suppressing a firearm found during a warrantless search conducted on a defendant’s property, a Brooklyn-based appellate court has ruled.
A unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, Second Department, affirmed a 2013 ruling by Queens Supreme Court Judge Robert Kohm in People v. Morris, 2124/12, finding that the district attorney’s office failed to justify police officers’ warrantless entry onto Horatio Morris’ property, where officers found a gun in a black plastic bag that Morris had dropped in his driveway.
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