Court Opinion

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
             Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department

1309
KA 10-00820
PRESENT: SCUDDER, P.J., PERADOTTO, CARNI, LINDLEY, AND SCONIERS, JJ.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENT,

                     V                               MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ELIO P. TILLAN, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

TIMOTHY P. DONAHER, PUBLIC DEFENDER, ROCHESTER (JAMES ECKERT OF
COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

SANDRA DOORLEY, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, ROCHESTER (STEPHEN X. O’BRIEN OF
COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT.

     Appeal from a judgment of the Monroe County Court (Patricia D.
Marks, J.), rendered November 23, 2009. The judgment convicted
defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a
controlled substance in the first degree, criminal possession of a
controlled substance in the third degree (three counts) and criminally
using drug paraphernalia in the second degree (four counts).

     It is hereby ORDERED that the judgment so appealed from is
unanimously affirmed.

     Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him,
upon his plea of guilty, of, inter alia, criminal possession of a
controlled substance in the first degree (Penal Law § 220.21 [1]). We
reject defendant’s contention that County Court erred in refusing to
suppress evidence obtained through the use of an eavesdropping
warrant. The warrant application established probable cause for the
issuance of the warrant, and contained a sufficient showing that
normal investigative procedures had been tried and had failed or
reasonably appeared to be unlikely to succeed (see CPL 700.15 [1],
[4]; People v Lazo, 16 AD3d 1153, 1153-1154, lv denied 4 NY3d 887;
People v Truver, 244 AD2d 990, 991).

Entered:   February 6, 2015                        Frances E. Cafarell
                                                   Clerk of the Court