ALBANY – Applying a 1966 U.S. Supreme Court precedent to an upstate drug case, the Court of Appeals yesterday unanimously held on Fourth Amendment grounds that Troy police had no authority to conduct a warrantless strip search absent exigent circumstances.
Yesterday’s decision in People v. More, 3, reverses a conviction and suppresses evidence retrieved from the defendant’s rectum. It sets a higher standard for search and seizure than recognized by the Appellate Division, Third Department, which had affirmed the conviction.
