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holding that defendant did not meet his burden of establishing a reasonable expectation of privacy where he was deemed a trespasser and there was no evidence to support his claim that he was an overnight guest
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September 24, 1998
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Carruthers, J., at suppression hearing; Jeffrey Atlas, J., at plea and sentence).
Defendant's suppression motion was properly denied. The court correctly found that defendant failed to meet his burden of establishing a legitimate expectation of privacy in the premises, where defendant's claim that he was an "overnight guest" in the apartment is unsupported by the record. We see no reason to disturb the court's credibility determinations ( see, People v. Prochilo, 41 N.Y.2d 759, 761). The evidence, including hearsay rendered admissible by CPL 710.60 (4), established that armed trespassers had taken over the apartment, which was supposed to be vacant, and that defendant's connection with the apartment was entirely that of a trespasser, notwithstanding his claimed relationship with a former tenant ( see, People v. Jose, 252 A.D.2d 401).
Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Nardelli, Mazzarelli, Andrias and Saxe, JJ.