Case ID: ad2d_33/html/0548-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. John Hendricks, Appellant.
   Judgment, rendered on March 2, 1967, convicting defendant, on his plea of guilty, of criminally possessing a pistol as a misdemeanor, unanimously reversed, on the law, and indictment dismissed. The only evidence against the defendant in this case, the gun, was seized pursuant to a search warrant which the Court of Appeals has already held to be invalid, because the affidavit presented in support thereof failed “to establish a basis for the reliability of the information” supplied by a confidential informant. (People v. Hendricks, 25 N Y 2d 129, 134.) The brief submitted by the District Attorney hereon concedes that “without the gun ® * * the conviction must be reversed and the indictment dismissed”. Concur — Eager, J. P., Capozzoli, MeGivern, Nunez and Bastow, JJ.